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Patience Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks exhibit preceded Madame Tussaud's work by 30 years, became well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax.
well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
well known as much for having an eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
well known as much because of her eccentric personality as she was for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
as well known for having an eccentric personality as having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
as well known for her eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
the operative question here is which of the two choices (b)(e) has BETTER PARALLELISM. there is no doubt that (e) has better parallelism than (b).
even if you consider that gerund to be a noun, it still isn't parallel to the other half of the construction.
if you changed it to
as much for having an eccentric personality as for making skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
then we could talk about it. but, as written now, it's clearly inferior to (e).
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