Hi Experts,
I saw following sentence in economist magazine --
The Los Angeles council approved an ordinance to outlaw plastic supermarket bags, by far the biggest city in America to do so. The measure will come into effect next year and includes a 10-cent charge on paper bags for shoppers who do not bring their own reusable ones.
Two questions --
1) How "city" (in bold) can refer to Los Angeles which is not available as noun, but rather as Adjective to the council ?
2) 2nd Sentence uses "The measure will come into effect ... and includes ..." -- probably two different tenses are parallel because measure is already defined - so at present also it includes the definition? But, then also those two things does not look parallel to me -- one talks about "coming into effect" and other talks about "the definition of the measure".
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Hi All,
The problem with using a magazine as a "source" for grammar practice is that magazine writers are NOT the same as GMAT Sentence Correction writers. The GMAT is very strict with its grammar (and the writers have to follow a very specific set of rules when constructing SC questions). Magazine writers are NOT bound but these limitations and you will often find minor mistakes in how those writers choose to write (and sometimes the mistakes are NOT minor, as you've noticed in the example that you provided).
As you continue to practice, you would be better served by focusing on GMAT practice material - this material was designed to show you the rules that the GMAT tests and the format with which the GMAT presents the concepts.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
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The problem with using a magazine as a "source" for grammar practice is that magazine writers are NOT the same as GMAT Sentence Correction writers. The GMAT is very strict with its grammar (and the writers have to follow a very specific set of rules when constructing SC questions). Magazine writers are NOT bound but these limitations and you will often find minor mistakes in how those writers choose to write (and sometimes the mistakes are NOT minor, as you've noticed in the example that you provided).
As you continue to practice, you would be better served by focusing on GMAT practice material - this material was designed to show you the rules that the GMAT tests and the format with which the GMAT presents the concepts.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
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