According to his own account, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, modeled the face of the statue like his mother's and the body like his wife's.
(A) modeled the face of the statue like his mother's and the body like his wife's
(B) modeled the face of the statue after that of his mother and the body after that of his wife
(C) modeled the face of the statue like his mother and the body like his wife
(D) made the face of the statue after his mother and the body after his wife
(E) made the face of the statue look like his mother and the body look like his wife
Doubt- Why is option A wrong?
The use of “like” is problematic in option A.
The sentence says
Frederic-Auguste modeled the face of the statue like his mother’s.
The idiom- take after means to resemble someone. The meaning of the sentence is that the face of the statue resembled that of his mother and the body of the statue resembled that of his wife.
Hence that is the correct idiom to be used.