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OG-VR2#80 - difficulty understanding explanation
Any medical test will sometimes fail to detect a condition when it is present and indicate that there is one when it is not. (A) a condition when it is present and indicate that there is one (B) when a condition is present and indicate that there is one (C) a condition when it is present and indicat...
- by sui generis
Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:35 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG-VR2#80 - difficulty understanding explanation
- Replies: 3
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Need expert's help on absolute phrase - OG#12-100
The stars, some of them at tremendous speeds, are in motion just as the planets are, yet being so far away from Earth that their apparent positions in the sky do not change enough for their movement to be observed during a single human lifetime. (A) The stars, some of them at tremendous speeds, are...
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Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:28 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Need expert's help on absolute phrase - OG#12-100
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1921
Thanks Kasia for the quick reply.
So basically "now" is modifying 'existed', while it should modify 'are'.
Another quick question: do we have any rule whereby an adverb should precede or follow a verb ? Or are adverbs flexible with respect to their placements.
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Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:43 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Doubt with placement of adverb ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 952
Doubt with placement of adverb ?
His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the range of present-day glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets had existed in what are now temperate areas (A) in which great ice sheets had existed in what are now temperat...
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Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:29 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Doubt with placement of adverb ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 952
D uses both 'enough' and 'so that', making the construction redundant and awkward.why not D is correct ?
Using either is the correct usage.
e.g. - X are unrealistic enough to constitute Y
OR X are so unrealistic that they constitute Y
OR X are so unrealistic as to constitute Y
- by sui generis
Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:45 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG10#88 - verb tense confusion ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1774
Thanks Mitch for the quick reply.
I concur with your reasoning; definitely A is better than C. However, in absence of choice A would choice C be correct ? As such I don't see any problem with 'have constituted'.
- by sui generis
Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:29 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG10#88 - verb tense confusion ?
- Replies: 8
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OG10#88 - verb tense confusion ?
The Emperor Augustus, it appears, commissioned an idealized sculpture portrait, the features of which are so unrealistic as to constitute what one scholar calls an "artificial face." (A) so unrealistic as to constitute (B) so unrealistic they constituted (C) so unrealistic that they have c...
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Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:23 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG10#88 - verb tense confusion ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1774
For choice A and B, the official explanation says : Besides being wordy, the clauses beginning What was in A and The thing that was in B cause inconsistencies in verb tense: the use of the new technology cannot logically be described by both the present perfect has been and the past was. Can anyone ...
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Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:16 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Question.
- Replies: 5
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Thanks for the reply and the helpful advice. the sentence you highlighted says that reservations can get water rights, and it doesn't matter how those reservations originally became reservations. I got the point that you wrote above. But I still couldn't get why is Winters Doctrine mentioned here. t...
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Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:23 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Can't understand a sentence in this passage.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1881
Can't understand a sentence in this passage.
In Winters v. United States (1908), the Supreme Court held that the right to use waters fl owing through or adjacent to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was reserved to American Indians by the treaty establishing the reservation. Although this treaty did not mention water rights, the Court ruled ...
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Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:18 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Can't understand a sentence in this passage.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1881
Choice B: The proliferation of so-called cybersquatters, people who register the Internet domain names of high-profile companies in hopes of reselling the rights to those names for a profit, led to the passage of the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in 1999, which allows companies to see...
- by sui generis
Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:53 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: the cybersquatters
- Replies: 11
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Thanks for the tip Bschool2013. I will definitely try this book.
However, I really don't know what went wrong and how to diagnose my verbal test day performance. Any thoughts on that ?
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Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:14 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: Got beaten and need dire advice - Next Gen 690
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2910
Effect of time and weight on raw score.
Firstly, I would like to thank both Eric and GMAC for this is new great initiative. It would not only help folks better understand the test but also clear lots of myths and doubts. I have two questions to ask: 1) Does the test factors the time spent answering a question in the score ? For instance, ...
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Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:20 pm- Forum: Ask the Test Maker
- Topic: Effect of time and weight on raw score.
- Replies: 1
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Got beaten and need dire advice - Next Gen 690
Took the Next Gen GMAT yesterday and got a disappointing 690 (Q50,V33). This was my second attempt and here are my two briefs. First Attempt: GMAT 1: 650 (Q50,V29) - Oct 2011 I prepared for about six months on my own. I completed almost every available GMAC material -- OG-10,11,12,VR2, Paper test, G...
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Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:33 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: Got beaten and need dire advice - Next Gen 690
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2910
I understand you logic abcgmat. But I am referencing to this concept: Heating-oil prices are expected to be higher this year than they were last year --> correct BUT Heating-oil prices are expected to be higher this year than last year --> incorrect Source: http://www.beatthegmat.com/comparisons-inv...
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Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:04 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT Prep Question Pack - Comparison
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8430