IanStewart wrote:
0Lucky0 wrote:
Not exactly! The use of "And" sounds much better to me than the use of a preposition "with". "and" atleast keeps the segue.
I agree with Bunuel, I also chose B and later found out that it was wrong. I still can't understand why E is better than B.
I'm not sure why you quote Ajitesh when you write "Not exactly!" when Ajitesh is the only expert in the thread who you seem to agree with! And Ajitesh is right -- there's nothing inherently wrong with using "and" at the end of a list, and then following that list with another "and". If I write:
I mainly eat potatoes, pasta, and rice, and I eat fish on holidays, that's a perfectly good sentence. The whole purpose of the "and" I highlight in red is to indicate that the list is about to end, so we know that a subsequent "and" (the one in blue) is a conjunction joining the list to a second idea.
So I disagree with the many expert posts in this thread, including the top post, that dismiss B because of some blanket objection to using "and" twice. In answer B, the second "and" clearly does not continue the list, but instead joins it to a new idea, so we aren't using "and" twice in the same list (which we can't do). It's not a problem, and I agree with Ajitesh about that (and as far as I can tell, with no other expert in this thread). The problem I see with B comes down to meaning. When we describe meat as "rare", we usually mean "almost uncooked". To be sure the sentence does not convey that unintended meaning, we need to avoid phrases like "rare meat" or "meat was rare", and replace it with "and rarely included meat" or, "with meat on rare occasions", or, as answer E awkwardly does, "with meat as a rarity", so it becomes clear that meat was a rare inclusion in the diet, and not that the meat itself was rare.
Well, I said "not exactly!" to
AjiteshArun over his below statement:
Quote:
The diet was veg and meat was rare.
This sounds as if we giving the reader two separate facts.
I didn't know that by "rare", he meant "almost uncooked". The link that he had shared is dead so I didn't know what he meant. But after reading your explanation, now I understand what he actually meant.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Now it's lucid.

so yea, now I take my "not exactly!" back!

lol
PS: Feels pretty good knowing that I, Ajitesh and Bunuel were the only three on this site who could see this flaw.
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