Japan is a culture of accommodation

[sanj]

Japan is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images, making its ever-present congestion tolerable.

(A) Japan is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images, making its
(B) Japan, a culture of accommodation and constraint, is a system of forms, etiquette, and images, which makes its
(C) A culture of accommodation and constraint, Japan is a system of forms, etiquette, and images making its
(D) Japan's is a culture of accommodation and constraint, a system of forms, etiquette, and images that makes the
(E) Japan's is a culture of accommodation and constraint, of a system of forms, etiquette, and images which makes the

I think a country cannot be a culture. so A,B n C out. E use of which is not correct. In D comma after etiquette is puzzling me. Ron sir please explain the difference between
"a culture of A,B,C, and D" and " a culture of A,B,C and D" . thnx

[RonPurewal]

sorry for the delay in responding.

we can't address this problem until you post the source, so please do so. if you don't, we'll have to kill the thread.
thank you.

[sanj]

sorry for the delay in responding.

we can't address this problem until you post the source, so please do so. if you don't, we'll have to kill the thread.
thank you.

source is SC1000

[rfernandez]

Ron sir please explain the difference between
"a culture of A,B,C, and D" and " a culture of A,B,C and D" . thnx

Those two look exactly the same to me! Would you please rephrase your question? Thanks.

[davetzulin]

ton of debate on this one on the other forums

d and e

"japan's is a culture of accommodation and constraint"

this construction is part of the correct answer (d). when they say "japan's" are they eliding "japan's culture"?


(C) A culture of accommodation and constraint, Japan is a system of forms, etiquette, and images making its
[i know this answer is wrong, but i'd like clarification on the modifier "making". even though it is touching images, according to another problem explained on this forum, I believe it should modify "system" since the intervening words are all a series of modifiers]

[tim]

"Japan's" means "Japan's culture". A possessive without a noun takes on the identity of another noun in the sentence..

In C, "making" modifies "images". In order for it to modify something else, you would need a comma in front of "making"..