Japan is a culture of accomodation, and constraint, a system

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Japan is a culture of accomodation, and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images, making its  ever-present congestion tolerable.

B) Japan, a culture of accomodation and constraint, is a system of forms, etiquette, and images, which makes its
D) Japan's is a culture of accomodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images that makes the

again, do not agree with OA which I will post later.  please explain  your answer choice. thanks!

asaf · Answer

'which', in my experience, always works on the immediate noun BUT thats not what is required here it is the effect of all the nouns e.g culture of accodmation, and constraint, a system of forms etc which makes the congested society tolerable.
D.

r019h · Answer

apologies, will keep in mind for future posts. I had narrowed down to those two, hence only posted those.

will post OA after a few more responses.

N750 · Answer

Good point by Asaf But still I am not convinced for D becoz of subject.
Japan's is not correct here it needs to be Japan.

goalsnr · Answer

B) Japan, a culture of accomodation and constraint, is a system of forms, etiquette, and images, which makes its

B. "which " modifies "is a system of forms, etiquette, and images"

r019h · Answer

can you elaborate? OA happens to be D but I just don't see how 'Japan's' in D can be correct. I myself picked B here.

shoonya · Answer

Guys, the problem in B is that Japan is not a culture, it's a country. It should be written as Japan's culture, a culture of accomodation .... Now, the perceived problem with E is the use of possessive Japan's. However, "Japan's" means"Japan's culture" here. Japan's (culture) is a culture of .... Anyways, it would have been challenging to judge the best answer from given 5 rather than 2. I wish all of us could take r019h to the test. He would reduce the answer choices from 5 to 2 and then we would take it from there

Himalayan · Answer

for the same reason I chose D but when I see "that makes" i though both are not resonablw answers. 

but two of them, chose D for the above reason.

goalsnr · Answer

r019h, Can you please post the other answer choices. Iam curious

Japan is a culture of accomodation, and constraint, a system

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