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Why "have tried" must be followed by "Have found"? Present perfect can't pair with simple present tense?
- by catty2004
Sat Aug 24, 2013 10:42 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: sc-1000
- Replies: 4
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hey hmboy17, The key to answering this question is knowing what it is testing. First, there's a framework #5 idiomatic expression : "between A and B" Notice you cannot say "between A or B"---therefore, scanning through the answer choices, D is wrong. This leaves you with A, B, a...
- by catty2004
Sat Aug 24, 2013 10:40 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: sc-1000
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2349
i received a private message about this thread. Experts please comment if " A, B and C, and D and E " is correct structure for a list. unfortunately, this is exactly the kind of analysis that is going to get you nowhere in general: you're trying to strip away all of the context and act as...
- by catty2004
Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:12 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The BATS !!! Sentence correction
- Replies: 12
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Is a/b < c/d?
If a, b, c, and d, are positive numbers, is a/b < c/d?
1) 0 < (c-a) / (d-b)
2) (ad/bc)^2 < (ad)/(bc)
- by catty2004
Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:19 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Is a/b < c/d?
- Replies: 6
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Problem Solving
From the consecutive integers -10 to 10 inclusive, 20 integers are randomly chosen with repetitions allowed. What is the least possible value of the product of the 20 integers?
A) (-10)^20
B) (-10)^10
C) 0
D) –(10)^19
E) –(10)^20
Answer: E
- by catty2004
Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:31 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Problem Solving
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1312
Can someone please explain why the "parallelism" in option C (see below) is wrong? Please for now ignore the sub-verb disagreement. Found throughout Central and South America, sloths use their long rubbery limbs to hang from trees, sleep 15 hours a day, and move so infrequently that two sp...
- by catty2004
Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:22 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Throught Process for #124 OG 12
- Replies: 6
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Though the language of Beowulf is practically incomprehensible to contemporary readers, careful linguistic analysis reveals a multitude of similarities to modern English. A] Though the language of Beowulf is practically incomprehensible to contemporary readers, careful linguistic analysis reveals a ...
- by catty2004
Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:01 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A good SC!!!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1357
Help needed to improve SC from 60% accuracy to above 90%
My accuracy rate when answering OG SC is about 60% (~21/47 wrong). I have 1 week until my exam, can experts or someone please please help me analyze what else I can do? I read MGMAT SC and SC Grail twice and made a small heap of index cards of all the key fundamentals. Then this is how i approach a ...
- by catty2004
Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:43 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Help needed to improve SC from 60% accuracy to above 90%
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2475