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Hi Karan,

That would be really great. Please post the new thread link here so that we can refer to it.

Regards,
Viju

lunarpower wrote:

goelmohit2002 wrote:If we can have one single place to look for all these sort of subtleties then it will be really great....

Thanks
Mohit

hmm

you could certainly try to construct such a thing, but its length would probably get out of hand quickly.

on the other hand, a FOLDER would work better. there could be a special folder dedicated to these sorts of rules, and each different rule could be a separate thread in the folder.
this would be easier because (a) a single thread could easily exceed a thousand posts and thus become essentially useless, and (b) separate threads would be SEARCHABLE in a way that a single thread simply wouldn't.

on the other hand, this folder would have to be moderated very, very closely. there are a lot of normal threads on which most (or, in the worst cases, all) the posts are wrong until one of the moderators comes around; we could NOT permit that to happen in this proposed new folder.

i could do some, but probably not all, of this moderation. maybe all of it, but probably not at first (since i'd imagine that the # of posts would grow at an obnoxiously fast rate at the outset, tapering to a more controlled rate of growth later).

what do you guys think.

Hi Ron,

In addition wouldn't it be good...if you(Manhattan) can release a sort of the additional important points which are not covered in Manhattan SC 4th edition but are sometimes/frequently tested in GMAT and confuse students a lot...

For e.g. this "one of the...." stuff....IMO is not covered in Manhattan SC guide.

Thanks
Mohit

This was one excellent post and thanks Ron for your invaluable post.

Btw, did we ever manage to create a post or a folder as discussed; It is going to be very helpful. I do agree with Ron that it is always useful to understand it with the context, but it helps me to know the rule because POE becomes much faster.

Besides this, without the explanation by Ron I would have never been able to get the right answer, because initially I thought that the subject is Interest Rate, which is singular.

Lets collaborate to create this folder.

A higher interest rate is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade.
(A) that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade.
(B) that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
(C) that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
(D) that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like earlier in the decade
(E) that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade

What's wrong with option D ? Like "earlier in the decade" ? Is it because it is a phrase with no subject+verb? Any help please.

A higher interest rate is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade.
(A) that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade.
(B) that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
(C) that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
(D) that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like earlier in the decade
(E) that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade


I went through the whole discussion - and also went to the link - provided by Ron.
Can anyone please confirm - 9I want to make sure I got it right)

Pasting the correct choice -
A higher interest rate is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade.

Is - "that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control" - referring to factors? Plural
And "as it did earlier in the decade" - referring to "A higher interest rate"

I was trying to frame similar sentence - are both correct?
He is only one of the people that are coming for the party, who is also part of this event.
He is the only one of the people that are coming for the party, who is also part of this event.