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I'm solving exercises for N1 level and I came across this question.

> 新しい家に飾る絵を探しているが、なかなか＿＿というものが見つからない。
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> A. これか
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> B. これは
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> C. これさえ
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> D. これだけ

The correct answer is B but I think it should be C.

I don't understand what the grammar point of 「これはというもの」is.
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What's the meaning of 「これはというもの」?
「これは」 is an expression which indicates surprise, or something that's giving
the speaker pause, along the lines of _"Wait, this one..."_. Anything coming
before a 「という」 should be taken as literal exclamation; so rather than 「はという」,
the sentence really is:

> なかなか「これは」というものが見つからない。

Which means _"I can't really find anything that makes me go 'This is it.'"_ ,
or _"...that I find worth considering."_
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The structure **X というもの** changes a word or sentence into a noun phrase (a
concept), and means 'something like X' .

  * さえ is a particle but not a sentence ending one so it cannot appear before a と quote.
  * だけ too is a particle; it can appear in a sentence-ending as long as it is followed by the copula. So it would need to be これだけだ to fit.
  * if これか is an embedded question, then it uses a different structure to と quotes, and anyway the speaker would more likely ask a question like これは何というものですか.

Whichever way, か, さえ and だけ simply don't make sense in the context of this
problem.

So why is これは? correct when it too seems to jar?

  * **これは** marks the topic and it is assumed to be something known by the speaker and hearer. In this case, it refers back to **飾る絵** in the first clause (ISR: intersentential reference)
  * Simplifying the second clause you get: **これは見つかれない** - "I can't find this" which starts to sound better but, これ is a demonstrative pronoun that points to a specific thing.
  * The speaker has a general idea in mind of what they want so you need to make これは into a general concept. By adding というもの to the topic to abstract it into 'I can't find something like this' and then adding in the adverb なかなか(Vneg~ない), you get **" but, it's not easy to find something like this"**.
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