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Ship-building tradition

by Dean Jones » Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:46 am
Hi Freinds,

I am having difficulty in answering this problem. Need help.

Despite there being no fundamental difference in shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia from the ones in other parts of Northern Europe, archaeological evidence shows that Viking ships were lighter, slimmer,faster, and thus probably more seaworthy than the heavier vessels used by the English at that time.

(A) Despite there being no fundamental difference in shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia from the ones

(B) Despite no fundamental difference between the shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia from those

(C) With shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia not fundamentally different from those

(D) With the shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia having no fundamental difference from the ones

(E) Although shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia were not fundamentally different from those

OA after some discussions.
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by sumit88 » Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:59 am
Despite there being no fundamental difference in shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia from the ones in other parts of Northern Europe, archaeological evidence shows that Viking ships were lighter, slimmer,faster, and thus probably more seaworthy than the heavier vessels used by the English at that time.

(A) Despite there being no fundamental difference in shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia from the ones

wrong. Being here is wordy. Also correct idiom is difference between.
(B) Despite no fundamental difference between the shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia from those
wrong. Correct idiom is between a and b.
(C) With shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia not fundamentally different from those
wrong. With cannot be used to show contrast.
(D) With the shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia having no fundamental difference from the ones
wrong. With cannot be used to show contrast.
(E) Although shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia were not fundamentally different from those
color: Correct. Although is used correctly. Those correctly refers to traditions.
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by tpr-becky » Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:33 pm
Despite there being no fundamental difference in shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia from the ones in other parts of Northern Europe, archaeological evidence shows that Viking ships were lighter, slimmer,faster, and thus probably more seaworthy than the heavier vessels used by the English at that time.

(A) Despite there being no fundamental difference in shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia from the ones. the idiom would ideallly be no difference between ... and...

(B) Despite no fundamental difference between the shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia from those Same as above - we would need and instead of from.

(C) With shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia not fundamentally different from those - with is the wrong word because it suggests the rest of the sentence will go in the same direction, yet this sentence is showing a difference.

(D) With the shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia having no fundamental difference from the ones see above

(E) Although shipbuilding traditions in Viking-Age Scandinavia were not fundamentally different from those
Although is used to show a change in direction adn different ... from is a correct idiom.
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by Krabhay » Tue Dec 18, 2018 8:56 pm
) The split between 'Despite', 'With' & Although and 'the ones' & 'Those'.
Use of 'The ones' is awkward so we can eliminate D & A
Now we are Left with B, C & E
Now this is contrasting sentence and we cannot use "with" in a contrasting statement like this. So, we can eliminate C
Despite used as 'first positive outcome than contrasting negative one' in statement B.
and Although used as 'first negative outcome than contrasting positive one' in statement E.
now the negative outcome is that the technique are same for both the Viking and other regions but positive is that the Viking ships are better and lighter. So, "Although" is a better usage. Hence,
E is the answer.
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by vietnam47 » Sat Aug 10, 2019 8:33 pm
with+noun+noun modifier/doing/do-ed can word as an adverb to modify the main clause. the adverb show many meaning relation with the main action such as, cause, context and result of the main action.

but the phrase can not be used to show a contrast presented by although.
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