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chaitanya.mehrotra
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In commercial garment construction, one advantage of serging over single needle sewing is that the seam allowance is overcast as the seam is sewn instead of with a separate process requiring deeper seam allowances.
A) instead of with
B) rather than in
C) in contrast with
D) as opposed to
E) instead of
This looks quite easy, because it is short. However, I found that this is confusing. Why is option ~E wrong. Is instead of ONLY used to compare 2 nouns , and since here we are comparing 2 clauses it will not work ?
The correct Answer is B
A) instead of with
B) rather than in
C) in contrast with
D) as opposed to
E) instead of
This looks quite easy, because it is short. However, I found that this is confusing. Why is option ~E wrong. Is instead of ONLY used to compare 2 nouns , and since here we are comparing 2 clauses it will not work ?
The correct Answer is B

















