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Umaa.spk Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Prepositional phrases

The diet of the ordinary Green in classical times was lergely vegetarian-vegetables, fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cake, 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.

OA is E

Can you explain me why E is correct?
  

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Hi, The diet of the ordinary Green in classical times was largely vegetarian : vegetables, fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cake, and meat rarely. A. and meat rarely B.

  • Hi, The diet of the ordinary Green in classical times was largely vegetarian : vegetables, fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cake, and meat rarely.
  • A.
  • and meat rarely B.
  • and meat was rare A and B are not good, because there is already an 'and' C.
  • with meat as rare with meat as .
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Hi,

The diet of the ordinary Green in classical times was largely vegetarian: vegetables, fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cake, and meat rarely.

A. and meat rarely

B. and meat was rare

A and B are not good, because there is already an 'and'

C. with meat as rare with meat as . . . needs to be followed by a noun.

D. meat a rarit
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OMG!! I'm very sorry. I made mistakes when typing. Its all misspelled words.

Its "Greek". Emotion: smile

thanks for the explan

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