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Thank you all for replying.
But I want to know what is the correct idiom responsibility to OR responsibility for.
In Kaplan GMAT Idiom section it is mentioned "responsibility to" is correct but MGMAT says "responsibility for"
- by saurabh2525_gupta
Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:49 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Idiom conflict - Responsibility
- Replies: 4
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Idiom conflict - Responsibility
The Federal Reserve Board assumes primary responsibility of the regulation for this nation’s commercial banks and savings institutions. (A) Board assumes primary responsibility of the regulation for (B) Board’s assumption of primary responsibility for the regulation of (C) Board’s assuming pri...
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Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:53 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Idiom conflict - Responsibility
- Replies: 4
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Just as an opening -ing modifier modifies the subject and verb of the following clause , so too the adverbial modifier "More than ... " modifies the subject and action in the following clause Agreed with this. Here "More than.." is modifying the verb "is remembered" be...
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Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:20 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Spanish Inquisition
- Replies: 14
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More than any other single event in the history of Europe, the Spanish Inquisition, instituted by Ferdinand and Isabella and controlled by the Spanish kings, is remembered for the burning of persons condemned as heretics. (A) More than any other single event in the history of Europe , the Spanish I...
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Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:07 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Spanish Inquisition
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2276
In the above question, nouns congress and Parliament are compared using "AS". Is it not wrong to this because we use "AS" to compare clauses not nouns. @saurabh2525_gupta, it is not wrong for "as" to compare nouns. I think you may be getting confused with the rule that...
- by saurabh2525_gupta
Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:52 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Parliment - Congress
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1950
Spanish Inquisition
More than any other single event in the history of Europe, the Spanish Inquisition, instituted by Ferdinand and Isabella and controlled by the Spanish kings, is remembered for the burning of persons condemned as heretics. (A) More than any other single event in the history of Europe, the Spanish In...
- by saurabh2525_gupta
Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:31 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Spanish Inquisition
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2276
thanks bubli but the source from where it is taken says that answer is D because of the idiom - "just as.... so"
- by saurabh2525_gupta
Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:17 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Parliment - Congress
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1950
Parliment - Congress
Just like Congress is the legislative branch of the Federal government of the United States, so Parliament is the legislative body of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (A) Just like Congress is the legislative branch of the Federal government of the United States, so (B) As ...
- by saurabh2525_gupta
Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:03 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Parliment - Congress
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1950
Source: Veritas Prep On a game show, a contestant is given three keys, each of which opens exactly one of three identical boxes. The first box contains $1, the second $100, and the third $1000. The contestant assigns each key to one of the boxes and wins the amount of money contained in any box tha...
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Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:03 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Game show
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14967
The answer is C. (A) Annual safety inspections ensure that car tires are replaced before they grow old. This does not explain why accident rate is more despite the strict safety measures. (B) Drivers often become overconfident after their cars have passed a thorough safety inspection. This seems a c...
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Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:42 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Car Safety Requirement
- Replies: 43
- Views: 25468
1 Researchers of prebiotic chemical reactions have been testing the theory that early life could have come about through RNA alone, gradually giving 5 way to a world in which RNA and DNA work together. Experiments conducted in 1983 showed that RNA molecules can split themselves and recombine in new...
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:17 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: RC Passage - Princeton
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23591
Received a PM. The reasoning goes as follows: - there have been notable improvements in the quality of the environment - this supports the idea that you still need to have some economical activity to support the costs associated with environmental improvements The conclusion here is that wealth gen...
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:42 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: LSAT--Columnist
- Replies: 46
- Views: 23514
Hi Can anyone explain the sentence "the gender distrinution for finance majors and non finance majors is the same." The same as what? ... I actually just reread this again, gender distribution is referring to male and female (naturally) and Each class of student finance or not. It just se...
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:18 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Investing
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13672
St 1 : This gives us the information x+y+z+8/4 = 12.5, so x+y+z = 42. Also the range of the set = 8. Lets randomly take x as largest and z be smallest. This means x-z = 8. Three variable and two equations, cannot be solved. Also no other information is provided wherein we can plugin values and solve...
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:56 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Challenge-statistics
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19823
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:31 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Cats and dogs
- Replies: 45
- Views: 20284