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This is a kind of practice question: This is easy for your GMAT prep on SC Choose the sentence in which all modifiers are clearly and correctly positioned. (A) Born during the winter, the car would not start for Sammy Davis, Jr.'s mother on the day that she gave birth. (B) Embarking on his career i...
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Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:47 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Modifier test
- Replies: 3
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Mary buys cookies made with SugarFree ,an artificial sweetener , which tastes as sweet as the corn syrup that her brother loves but where there are fewer calories than in an equivalent amount of corn syrup . The answer is : Mary buys cookies made with sugarFree, an artificial sweetener ,which taste...
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Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:58 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Modifiers , sentence Correction 5th ed , pg 93
- Replies: 3
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Angola , which was ravaged by civil war for many years after it gained independence from Portugal , which is now one of Africa's success stories , has an economy that grew by 21% last year , where parliamentary elections are to be held later this week . The answer given in the book is : Ravaged by ...
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Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:18 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Modifiers , chap -6 , pg -93 , 5th edition
- Replies: 1
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The employees of the complaint department were split into several morale-boosting teams, whose members met to play weekly games on the local fields, and then take turns organizing dinner parties at different restaurants. (A) fields, and then take turns organizing (B) fields, then taking turns organ...
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Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:31 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC - Parallelism (bit tough one)
- Replies: 6
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OA is A Ashujain: in B, we have pronoun antecedent error of what "their" is referring to A - is correct, "whose" - relative pronoun correctly modifies "people" Karthik, why is B wrong...you said 'their' is wrongly used bcos of pronoun antecedant error... but why can't ...
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Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:22 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC - Pronoun Antecedent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1553
Artisans from small towns hoping to sell their popular glassware in large cities have found the local customers are difficult to please, frugal, and are reluctant to bargain. (A) the local customers are difficult to please, frugal, and are (C) that local customers are difficult to please, frugal, a...
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Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:47 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC - Meaning of the Sentence
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1392
agree that the placement of 'so far' is too far from the word it is modifying i.e. signs.
but is this not a subtle error ? How can we figure such an error look prominent so that it comes up quickly.
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Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:28 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: MGMAT SC - Prospect of Inflation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2002
Policy makers remain concerned about the prospect of inflation, although there are few signs of increasing energy prices driving up the cost of other goods so far. (a) remain concerned about the prospect of inflation, although there are few signs of increasing energy prices driving up the cost of o...
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Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:14 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: MGMAT SC - Prospect of Inflation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2002
Artisans from small towns hoping to sell their popular glassware in large cities have found the local customers are difficult to please, frugal, and are reluctant to bargain. The correct answer should be C . Let me explain: This is a question testing parallelism and clause agreement. (A) the local ...
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Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:51 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC - Meaning of the Sentence
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1392
If the three verbs were parallel, you could substitute them for each other without adding anything to the sentence, and grammatically it should still work. The audience [...] listened raptly - OK The audience [...] applauding often - Doesn't work the same way The audience [...] standing to clap - A...
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Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:07 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: a question from a sentence from nytimes
- Replies: 2
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a question from a sentence from nytimes
The audience in Oslo’s City Hall, which included the Norwegian royal family, listened raptly, applauding often, standing to clap when Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi entered the hall and when she finished her speech, which was at the same time modest, personal and touching, an appeal to find practical ways t...
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Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:13 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: a question from a sentence from nytimes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1011
Thanks Mike for pointing out that constant rate of growth means multiplier would be constant each year. Instead I was interpreting that a constant would be added each year i.e. (2008 rev) = r+(2007 rev) You are quite welcome. Best of luck to you, and please let me know if you have any further quest...
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Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:53 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Tough question
- Replies: 7
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The big difference is that #1 has two distinct groups (juniors and seniors) while #2 has one group (lightbulbs in the box). By looking at #1 and starting with each group, you're effectively double-counting the probability. You can end up with the same pair whether you start with the junior or senio...
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Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:50 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: P & C problem
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1505
Hi, there. I'm happy to help! :) Well, if we assume a constant rate of growth, a constant percentage, that means the multiplier would be constant each year (2008 rev) = r*(2007 rev) (2009 rev) = r*(2008 rev) = (r^2)*(2007 rev) Thanks Mike for pointing out that constant rate of growth means multipli...
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Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:12 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Tough question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1419
possible options that will sum up to 8 are:
2,6 prob of 2 is 1/6 same for 6 so there joint probability is 1/6*1/6=1/36
3,5 1/36 for reason mentioned above
4,4 1/36 for reason mentioned above
5,3 1/36 for reason mentioned above
6,6 1/36 for reason mentioned above
so the sum is 5/36
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Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:40 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: GMATPrep Probability
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1229