vaishalijain7 wrote:OA is [spoiler]'E'[/spoiler]. Can anyone please explain the reason?

iamcste wrote:

vaishalijain7 wrote:OA is [spoiler]'E'[/spoiler]. Can anyone please explain the reason?

In not underlined part, we have a past perfect tense hence we need a simple past tense. eliminate A, B and C

Betweem D and E, "It was X that..." is an idiomatic structure and I have seen this as answer in few official questions. this is something to note.

There are other errors too such as:

In D, almost is not modifying 1900
C has subjuncitve "were" while we need a simple past

Can you also post Official explanation, May be I have missed somthing

vaishalijain7 wrote:
but in 'A' it's simple past only then why did you eliminate 'A'?

vaishalijain7 wrote:Although various eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuary american poets had professed an interest in native american poetry and had pretended to imitate native american forms in their own works, until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study traditional native american poetry in native languages.

A. until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study
B. until almost 1900 scholars and critics had not begun seriously studying
C. not until almost 1900 were scholars and critics to begin seriously to study
D. it was not almost until 1900 when scholars and critics began to seriously study
E. it was not until almost 1900 that scholars and critics seriously began studying