Hunting was important to Huron tribes for meat not so much

Question

10. Hunting was important to Huron tribes  for meat not so much as clothing , which was made from deerskin and beaver pelts.

(A) for meat not so much as clothing
(B) not for meat so much as clothing
(C) more for clothing as for meat
(D) more for clothing than meat
(E) for clothing more than for meat

amy_v · Answer

Which refers to the noun immediately preceeding it. the answer choice should have clothing at the end..Between A and B ,I will go with B but I am not very happy with it... not for meat so much as """"" for """""" clothing :?:

sandalphon · Answer

A and B can be cancelled out immediately since  which  follows afterwards and the reference is made to  meat . On second thought I would choose  E , because of parallelism ( for..for ).

desiguy · Answer

I think it is B because of the modifier following.

rahulraao · Answer

I choose B!
How can E be the right answer? which clearly refers to meat, when it shoudl have referred to clothing!

vivek123 · Answer

I think it is 'B'.

but I think, in 'B', 'for' is needed before clothing.

gamjatang · Answer

The OA is (B).

christoph · Answer

C),D) and E) are wrong b/c the modifier is misplaced. b/w A) and B) ? the idiom is "not so much x as y". B) as well as A) violate the idiom. maybe there is a typo in B) ? but on examday i would have chosen B) !

nakib77 · Answer

I don't think OA is correct.

not for ...... but for..... is the proper structure.

B is missing that.

so B cannot be correct.

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