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by AJWILL » Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:36 am
Q)26. After a few weeks' experience, apprentice jewelers can usually begin to discriminate, though not with absolute certainty, genuine diamonds from imitation diamonds.
[A] genuine diamonds from imitation diamonds
genuine diamonds apart from imitations
[C] between genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds
[D] among genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds
[E] whether diamonds are imitation or genuine

Elimination rule between a and c
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by vk_vinayak » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:03 am
AJWILL wrote:Q)26. After a few weeks' experience, apprentice jewelers can usually begin to discriminate, though not with absolute certainty, genuine diamonds from imitation diamonds.
[A] genuine diamonds from imitation diamonds
genuine diamonds apart from imitations
[C] between genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds
[D] among genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds
[E] whether diamonds are imitation or genuine

Elimination rule between a and c


The question tests the usage of the idiom. The correct idiom is Discriminate between X and Y. A doesn't follow this usage, hence A is incorrect.
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by Krabhay » Tue Dec 18, 2018 9:32 pm
a. 'Discrimination' doesn't take 'from' as a preposition with it.
b. Same error as 'a'.
c. 'Discrimination' takes 'against', 'on', 'between', 'among', 'as' and 'by' as prepositions along with it. So, option 'c' is grammatically true.
d. 'among' should be used for more than two people or things.
e. 'Whether' doesn't go with 'Discrimination'.
Hence, c is the answer.
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