Soujam wrote
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Hi, why A is incorrect? It sounds more logical to me....on the contrary in answer D seems that we are comparing the WAY found by manufactures, instead of comparing the hard-paste porcelain.
'Comparable' cannot modify the way, either grammatically or logically.
1. 'Comparable', an adjective, has to modify the noun that it touches and if not appropriate, the nearest another noun.
It might be seen there are at least four other nouns before it can touch the way.
2. Logically, we can see that the importers bought a product, not a process before they made the invention.
The only problem with D is that the choice unnecessarily drops the phrase from the Far East, something people may object as not carrying the original intent in full. However, many others may argue that the Far East or the Far West is not the critical issue as long as that the importing was the fact rather than from where.
With regard to the justification of past perfect, the related later event is that the people found something in 1719. It is clear that before this invention, people had imported it. Therefore, it is passable to use a past perfect, as it is neither unidiomatic nor ungrammatical. By using the word 'had'' we are only adding to the clarity.
In addition, look at the word 'for centuries.' The preposition 'for' is a perfect tense marker of both present perfect and past perfect tenses.
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Is underline portion cover ", comparable " or not? If yes, D is correct, otherwise, D is wrong
Ans: The underlining starts even before that in the prompt and includes 'which was". Therefore, it definitely covers comparable.