Art Patrons

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by RumpelThickSkin » Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:17 pm
Although many art patrons can readily differentiate a good debenture from an undesirable one, they are much less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and fakes.

(A) much less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and

(B) far less expert in distinguishing good paintings from poor ones, authentic art from

(C) much less expert when it comes to distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art from

(D) far less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and

(E) far less the expert when it comes to distinguishing between good painting, poor ones, authentic art, and

OA : [spoiler] after the intial few posts. easy to eliminate A , C & D btw[/spoiler]
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by hardik.jadeja » Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:52 pm
The answer is B.

The idiom is "distinguish X from Y".

A, C, and D all have the wrong idiom "distinguishing X and Y". E also suffers from wrong idiom "distinguishing between X,Y".

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by indiantiger » Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:02 pm
B using idiom "distinguish x from y"
"Single Malt is better than Blended"

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