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Recently physicians have determined that stomach ulcers are not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but a bacterium that dwells in the mucous lining of the stomach. A. not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but B. not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but are by C. caused not by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but by D. caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but E. caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but are by OA: Please.explanations.
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tejal777 wrote: Recently physicians have determined that stomach ulcers are not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but a bacterium that dwells in the mucous lining of the stomach. A. not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but B. not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but are by C. caused not by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but by D. caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but E. caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but are by OA: Please.explanations. Is the OA C ? Idiom, Parallel construction Not by X, But by Y caused not by (stress, alcohol, or rich foods), but by (a bacterium that dwells in the mucous lining of the stomach.)
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tejal777 wrote: Recently physicians have determined that stomach ulcers are not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but a bacterium that dwells in the mucous lining of the stomach. A. not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but B. not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but are by C. caused not by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but by D. caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but E. caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but are by OA: Please.explanations. Hi this question tests your knowledge of parallelism The correct idiom is "not X but Y". X and Y must be parallel Note that A and B have a construction "not CAUSED ........ but Y' If the writer wants to write that way, it should be "not CAUSED X, but CAUSED Y" In this case, X and Y both have to have a "by" inside them. The only alternative that has a structure "caused not by X, but by Y" is C sounds good? 
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yes C - parallelism "not by x but by Y"
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Re: stomach ulcers [#permalink]
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Recently physicians have determined that stomach ulcers are not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but a bacterium that dwells in the mucous lining of the stomach. A. not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but B. not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but are by C. caused not by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but by D. caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but E. caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but are by Parallelism : caused not by... but by - correct OR Caused by not... but.. - correct. anything else is wrong. and vs. or. and implies a combination and alters the meaning from A. so C is correct
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