Diet of the ordinary hindu

[sumitkhurana]

The diet of the ordinary Hindu in Vedic times was largely vegetarian - vegetables, dairy products and rarely meat.

(A) rarely meat
(B) meat was rare
(C) rare meat
(D) with meat as a rarity
(E) raw meat

[piyush_nitt]

The diet of the ordinary Hindu in Vedic times was largely vegetarian - vegetables, dairy products and rarely meat.

(A) rarely meat
(B) meat was rare
(C) rare meat
(D) with meat as a rarity
(E) raw meat

IMO D

we need a conjunction to join a later part to main clause , therefore we need 'with'.

similiar kind of Q is there in OG 10 : 104

[satish.nagdev]

I think its A itself
D sounds wordy IMO
C,E distort meaning
B I'm not sure how to describe

[aroon7]

OA please

[nervesofsteel]

The diet of the ordinary Hindu in Vedic times was largely vegetarian - vegetables, dairy products and rarely meat.

(A) rarely meat
(B) meat was rare
(C) rare meat
(D) with meat as a rarity
(E) raw meat

IMO A

I am confused between A and D

but ....... and with meat as a rarity -- sounds awkward

So i ll go with A

[sjd00d]

I would go with D. A seems to imply that the diet consists of "rarely meat" some sort of a special meat that is..the adverb (rarely) seems to be modifying noun meat which it can't.

I could be wrong though (i put this disclaimer on every SC post as i am no expert and don't want to mislead folks)

[welcome]

Hi,
I think there is something missing in the question, I have seen a similar Q before.

IMO answer should be D if question is like ....


The diet of the ordinary Hindu in Vedic times was largely vegetarian - vegetables, fruits and dairy products, and rarely meat.

[gmat4babu]

I think it's A - rarely is parallel to largely

[nervesofsteel]

OA plzzzz...??

[nox104]

I think it is D because of parallelism:

vegetables, dairy products and rarely meat are not parallel.

It should read vegetables, dairy products and with meat as a rarity.

[aroon7]

anyone knows OA?

[sjd00d]

This is probably coming from SC 1000 (options are a bit different though),

730. The diet of the ordinary Greek in classical times was largely vegetarian—vegetables, fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cakes, and meat rarely.
(A) and meat rarely
(B) and meat was rare
(C) with meat as rare
(D) meat a rarity
(E) with meat as a rarity


The answer here is E and thus would like to think that the OA on the original post should be D.

[piyush_nitt]

This is probably coming from SC 1000 (options are a bit different though),

730. The diet of the ordinary Greek in classical times was largely vegetarian—vegetables, fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cakes, and meat rarely.
(A) and meat rarely
(B) and meat was rare
(C) with meat as rare
(D) meat a rarity
(E) with meat as a rarity


The answer here is E and thus would like to think that the OA on the original post should be D.

Any take on this guys ??

why E over A?

[hk]

I would definitely go with D. The clue lies in the non-underlined part of the sentence - was largely vegetarian - vegetables, dairy products and rarely meat.

The sentence can be rephrased as "The diet of the ordinary Hindu in Vedic times was largely vegetarian with meat as a rarity. " Here Vegetables and dairy products are just examples of vegetarian and option A wrongly implies that Rarely meat was a form of vegetarian food.!!!!

Hope this helps..