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- by kinji@BTG
Fri Sep 12, 2014 4:47 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A study of food resources in the North Pacific between
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1932
Hey Guys , I am bit confuse here . In option B "of" is missing it should not be "because of" I am going through the Idioms list from Manhattan and it's mention "BECAUSE OF THE SUN, PLANTS GROW" That's why i have rejected B option. Pls correct me , if i am wrStruiong. D...
- by kinji@BTG
Fri Sep 12, 2014 4:46 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A study of food resources in the North Pacific between
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1932
Hi ceilidh, One doubt: X resulted from Y X is a result of Y Are the above two constructions correct? I am also trying to understand "a result" in Option A) and "as a result" in Option B) Can you please highlight any differences. "a result" doesn't look fine but I am not...
- by kinji@BTG
Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:59 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A study of food resources in the North Pacific between
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1932
- by kinji@BTG
Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:46 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: In order to raise revenue, the federal government planned
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9634
In hoping to restrain economic growth, interest rates were raised by British policymakers, making it more expensive to borrow for businesses and consumers. (A) In hoping to restrain economic growth, interest rates were raised by British policymakers, making it more expensive to borrow for businesse...
- by kinji@BTG
Mon May 26, 2014 10:30 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Businesses and consumers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2459
The tarantula communities gain their strength through a division of labor, with some members specializing in web repair, some in attacking and subduing prey. A some in attacking and subduing prey B and some to attack and subdue prey C and some by attacking and subduing prey D with some to attack an...
- by kinji@BTG
Mon May 26, 2014 10:16 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The tarantula communities gain their strength through
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2155
Good day people, The parallelism marker (or idiom) MORE....THAN when used with prepositions such as ON results in some confusion: For example, 1. ".." MORE emphasis ON style THAN ON the content...." works or 2. ".." MORE emphasis ON style THAN the content...." is right...
- by kinji@BTG
Sun May 25, 2014 12:15 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: More..Than (Preposition and Parallelism) Ambiguity
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2915
Yo-yo Ma, whom according to the classical cellists of the world is perhaps the world’s best, plays in a versatile style which is ever-changing but which also employs aspects of genres as varied as Baroque, American bluegrass, and modern minimalism. Lets separate as clauses: Removing the modifier w...
- by kinji@BTG
Sat May 24, 2014 9:21 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Yo-yo Ma, whom according to the classical cellists of the
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2738
Hello Everyone, Here's a question from the e-GMAT bakery. I hope you enjoy solving it :) Advisor: The government of city of Benzaria should discontinue the requirement from all schools to provide video recordings of classroom sessions to the students. The costs implications to maintain such a facil...
- by kinji@BTG
Sat May 24, 2014 11:03 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: An e-GMAT Question - Advisor: The government of city of Benz
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2775
Hello Everyone, Here's another CR question from e-GMAT in this week. Hope you enjoy and learn from it :) Chinese restaurants that offer free jasmine tea with meals do better business than similar Chinese restaurants that do not offer it for free. But since restaurants offering this free-tea are mor...
- by kinji@BTG
Sat May 24, 2014 10:19 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: An e-GMAT Question - Chinese restaurants that offer free jas
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2279
In prenatal testing for spina bifida
In prenatal testing for spina bifida, a life threatening disease, a false positive result indicates that an fetus has spina bifida when, in fact, it does not; a false negative result indicates that a fetus does not have spina bifida when, in fact, it does. To detect spina bifida most accurately, phy...
- by kinji@BTG
Sat May 24, 2014 6:58 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: In prenatal testing for spina bifida
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1950
Hi DanaJ, When I started doing this question under the time constraint of two mins, the first thought that came to me after reading the first option was that this one is an inference and not the assumption.So I moved on the the other options. When i read the (C), i did the following :- 1) Applied t...
- by kinji@BTG
Sun May 18, 2014 9:46 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Lobsters
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12147
A. The illegal lobster harvesting was not so extensive that the population of catchable lobsters in Belukia’s territorial waters had sharply declined by 1996. If this is negated, the argument falls apart - Hence A) If it has declined the argument that the gap of annual catch between 1992 and 1996 ...
- by kinji@BTG
Sun May 18, 2014 9:43 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Lobsters
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12147
After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it would be forced to accept a one billion dollar loss, an expense that would have forced its main competitor to declare bankruptcy if it had suffered such a loss. (A) After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it would ...
- by kinji@BTG
Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:11 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: One Billion Dollar Loss
- Replies: 51
- Views: 29800
- by kinji@BTG
Sat Jun 08, 2013 6:02 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Roads
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2498