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by amitabhprasad » Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:38 pm
imo D
(A) Japan is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images, making its
its has no clear referent
(B) Japan, a culture of accommodation and constraint, is a system of forms, etiquette, and images, which makes its
problem with which and its
(C) A culture of accommodation and constraint, Japan is a system of forms, etiquette, and images making its
same problem as "A"
(D) Japan's is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images that makes the
Here Japan's refers to Japan's culture
(E) Japan's is a culture of accommodation and constraint, of a system of forms, etiquette, and images which makes the
"which" seems to refer to mages

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by vivek.kapoor83 » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:40 pm
OA for this pls

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by nervesofsteel » Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:08 am
IMO its B..

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Re: Japan

by codesnooker » Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:02 pm
ritula wrote:Japan is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquetteand images, making its ever-present congestion tolerable

(A) Japan is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images, making its
(B) Japan, a culture of accommodation and constraint, is a system of forms, etiquette, and images, which makes its
(C) A culture of accommodation and constraint, Japan is a system of forms, etiquette, and images making its
(D) Japan's is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images that makes the
(E) Japan's is a culture of accommodation and constraint, of a system of forms, etiquette, and images which makes the
Here (D) is best among all the choices.

1. We need a possession over here to show that Japan has a system. Now since, none of the sentence contains has/had, therefore this mistake is corrected in (D) and (E) by apostrophe 'S'.

2. Between (D) and (E), (E) is out because Japan has a system, not like, Japan has of a system. So OF makes (E) incorrect.

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by gmattakers » Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:40 pm
Which one is the correct answer in the OA?

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by karmayogi » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:39 am
I guess, the final verdict is yet not out. To me none of the answers seems to be correct. Even in D, to me, "Japan's is a..." is awkard. If the D means, "Japan has..." then "Japan has is..." doesn't make any sense.

Could someone explain?

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Re: Japan

by logitech » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:59 am
codesnooker wrote:
(D) Japan's is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images that makes the
images that make ?
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by Karen » Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:29 pm
It's clearly D.

A lot of people here like A, but there is absolutely no way that A can be correct. The GMAT would never accept a statement that begins "Japan is a culture". When you see that, you can stop reading. Japan isn't a culture. Japan is a country. A country _has_ a culture.


That knocks out B and C as well, since they also claim that Japan is a culture. We can eliminate E because the 'of' in 'of a system' doesn't make sense.

It's D. There's also an important but harder to explain difference between "a system of forms, etiquette, and images, making its..." as in A (and the nearly identical wording in C) and "a system of forms, etiquette, and images that makes" in D, but I don't know if anyone wants to hear about it. You shouldn't need to even look at that part of the sentence if you simply recognize that Japan is not a culture. In other words, for those of you who are working on speeding up, you should be able to eliminate A, B and C in mere seconds.
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by orel » Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:36 pm
should be A

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by preetha_85 » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:48 am
Japan is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquetteand images, making its ever-present congestion tolerable

(A) Japan is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images, making its
(B) Japan, a culture of accommodation and constraint, is a system of forms, etiquette, and images, which makes its
(C) A culture of accommodation and constraint, Japan is a system of forms, etiquette, and images making its
(D) Japan's is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images that makes the
(E) Japan's is a culture of accommodation and constraint, of a system of forms, etiquette, and images which makes the
Karen coul;d u please explain how "that makes the ever present congestion tolerable" better than "making its ever present congestion tolerable"
Could A be the OA if it said Japan's rather than Japan as given in the question

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by gilm » Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:03 am
Keren, the way I read it, they all say that Japan is a culture.

I dont like D because I dont think that "that" at the end of the sentencs is clear. It seems to refer to "Images" alone, so I think it has to be "its" at the end of the underlined portion.

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by mankey » Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:37 am
Please provide OA with some explanation.

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by GmatKiss » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:11 am
Karen has given a good explanation!

What is your doubt here?

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by Amit_Vashishtha » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:49 am
I was confused with the option (d) but with your explanation, the things are clear now. :)

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by MQ0451 » Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:43 pm
I was thinking about B, but Karen raises an excellent point. I'm no expert, but Japan is not a culture, it's a country. Japanese culture or Japan's culture are the ways of talking about the culture of Japan, but we don't get that option. Choice D, which is awkward, does work. My hang up with D was the "Japan's is a", which doesn't make it clear what Japan is in possession of. If you keep reading though, it becomes clear that the subject is culture, and so it's talking about Japan's culture. It's an unstated subject - kind of tricky as it may be tempting to rule out right away. If we add in "Japan's culture is a" the sentence suddenly is correct. Hurray. Answer is D.