rajatr wrote:
Cultural anthropologists are often unwilling to discuss the number of subcultures that exist in the United States, largely because of a debate over the appropriate definition of the term "subculture" and the difficulty of identifying groups of people that often wish to remain somewhat anonymous, and there are several pop culture critics that claim to have discovered at least fifty.
A. and the difficulty of identifying groups of people that often wish to remain somewhat anonymous, and there are several pop culture critics that claim
to have discovered
B. and the difficulty of identifying groups of people that often wish to remain somewhat anonymous, but there are several pop culture critics who claim
to have discovered
C. and the difficulty of identifying groups of people that often wish to remain somewhat anonymous, although, there are several pop culture critics who
claim to have discovered
D. or the difficulty of identifying groups of people that often wish to remain somewhat anonymous, but there are several pop culture critics who claim
they have discovered
E. and the difficulty of identifying groups of people that often wish to remain somewhat anonymously, but there are several pop culture critics that
claim that they have discovered
the core words you should pay attention to are:
"because of a debate over X and the difficulty of identifying Y"
--because of X and Y --we want to eliminate the OR in D.
Then pay attention to meaning. First we talk about the difficulty of identifying people - then we say some group of people actually discovered at least 50. So we need a contrasting term such as BUT or ALTHOUGH---that helps us eliminate A since A uses AND.
So now we got rid of D and A - left with B, C, and E.
"pop culture critics" are people --so we use "who" instead of "that"--that gets rid of E.
Now between B and C-- C has an awkward comma after ALTHOUGH - so the cleaner option is B.
Read the sentence again from the beginning and you'll see that B looks and sounds good.