Sentence Correction

crackgmat007 wrote:

(2) the clauses are really short: i ordered steak and she ordered shrimp.

Wow!! I would have treated the above example as ungrammetical. Thanks for clarifying Ron.

So, if two clauses are really long with modifiers etc, we do need a comma. Correct?

i would generally say "yes".
however, from the tone of your post, it seems as though you're looking for a RULE that is strong enough to serve as the actual basis for making eliminations; thi sis not the sort of topic on which i would propound such a rule, since the difference is mostly stylistic rather than grammatical.

in other words:
this is not the sort of thing upon which you should try to eliminate answer choices, unless you literallly cannot find ANYTHING else that you don't like about the remaining choices.

As you expected, I wanted to define a rule and stick to it. Looks like it depends on the structure of the sentence. Thanks much for clarifying.

lunarpower wrote: whoa. if you're not familiar with the idiomatic expression "there is" / "there are", then you should become familiar with it. it's EXTREMELY common; it's used to enumerate the contents of something, or to state that something exists or doesn't exist.

there are two professional baseball teams in ohio.
there is no reason to avoid that food.

Hi Ron,

Many thanks for your reply.

Can you please explain a bit more about "there is"/ "there are".....

when it is correctly used and when it is incorrectly used....this "there is/are" seems to be tested very frequently in GMAT....

Thanks
Mohit