Though garlic is often associated with Italian cuisine, it is actually

I chose answer choice "D" just as you guys did. However the answer key says that "D" is not the right answer.

The OA = E.

Reason "D" is the wrong answer "according to the book": "D fails to mention the French Cuisines and therefore the dependant clause "which is the major distinction between the two great cuisines" is not right.

Here is where i have a problem: While answer choice "D" is wrong (the author's aforementioned reasoning makes sense) i have a problem with answer choice "E".

How can we compare "Italian Cookery" with "French". That was my logic when i booted out answer choice "E". If the author used French Cookery or French's i would have been okay with anwer choice "E".

Any comments guys???

for D to be an answer, there has to be a reference to French cuisines
(cookery) before the last sentence. Since there is no such reference,
D can't be an answer. E may not be the most correct answer, it is the
best among those provided as choices.

I think we are using ellipsis to omit cookery from French cookery at the end of choice E.

An ellipsis is the omission from a sentence of words that are clearly understood.

In this case, When we say
distinguishes Italian cookery from French
it means distinguishes Italian cookery from French cookery.

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I've seen more movies than you have (seen movies this year). Here the phrase in the parenthesis is omitted.

IMO E.

1. idiom distinguish x from y

pls note
distinguished BETWEEN is preferred over distinguished FROM

now lets see
(A) which most distinguishes the Italians
from the French--wrong comparison
(B) which primarily distinguishes Italians
from Frenchmen--wrong comparison
(C) which generally serves to distinguish
an Italian sauce from a French one-wordy
(D) which is the major distinction between
the two great cuisines--two ??whom does it refer to?
(E) which most distinguishes Italian cookery
from French(cookery)--correct?

whats the OA?

C distorts the orignal meaning.

oregano serves to distinguish X from Y.
It's not Oregano that distinguish X from Y.
It's Oregano serving that distinguish X from Y.

A, B --clearly out.. we are talking about people istead of cookery. [non-underline part they are talking about Italian cusine]

D also distorts the orignal meaning.

two great cusines.. what is the other cusine.??.
Also


E is the best

distinguish Italian cookery form French [cookery]

Though garlic is often associated with Italian cuisine, it is actually the use of oregano which most distinguishes the Italians from the French

A) which most distinguishes the Italians from the French
B) which primarily distinguishes Italians from Frenchmen
C) which generally serves to distinguish an Italian sauce from a French one
D) which is the major distinction between the two great cuisines
E) which most distinguishes Italian cookery from French.

I chose D first as well, but we don't know about the other cuisine its referring to(French or American etc)
I think E is the correct answer

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