Sheshadri became Ravi Shankar’s student and protégé when he was eighteen and, for a few years in the 1970’s, came as close to being a carbon copy of the sitar virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever come.
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as anyone has ever come
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as anyone ever had been
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as anyone ever had done
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that anyone ever did
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that anyone ever came
C
Correct answer
Explanation
The correct usage of ‘as’ is ‘as ...... as’ which rules out options (4) and (5). Option (1) offers the best construct among the remaining options with ‘anyone’ followed by ‘has’ over ‘anyone’ followed by ‘ever’. Hence (3).