sc doubt- correct usuage of correlate

This topic has expert replies
Source: — Sentence Correction |

Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts
Posts: 189
Joined: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:42 am
Thanked: 11 times
Followed by:1 members

A

by hitmewithgmat » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:44 am
subject- incidence (singular)
Verb-correlates (singular verb with S)

Eliminate B,C and D.

Between A and E,

A is correct because of idiom.
CORRELATE WITH

Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts
Posts: 84
Joined: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:04 am
Thanked: 3 times

by dgr8onerip » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:51 am
thanks a lot..
but why is 'correlate to' wrong
even i shortlisted A and E but chose E

Legendary Member
Posts: 1159
Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:35 pm
Thanked: 56 times

by raunekk » Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:35 am
because of idiom: correlates X with Y.

check out the idiom list in "beat the gmat resources"..

• Page 1 of 1