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ANSWER HERE: A and B are wrong because the college has only one founding, whereas "at its 1833 founding" makes it look like it has multiple founding days. C. is wrong because it was not founded for its decision, changes meaning. E. by deciding...on the acceptance, they did not become rogu...
- by theforrestgump
Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:35 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC-Oberlin College
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8610
E. is wrong because "although" is a subordinating conjunction and a subordinating conjunction introduces a subordinate clause and a subordinate clause cannot have a working verb. Like in this case "was unnoticed" is a working verb.
- by theforrestgump
Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:04 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Chinese scholars
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5019
- by theforrestgump
Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:18 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Parallelism - Participles
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1935
From MGMAT SC guide pg.73 7. The players' helmets need to be repainted before they are used in Sunday's game. CORRECT. Helmets is the antecedent of they. You need not worry that they could refer to players', because (1)helmets is closer to they, and (2) players' is a possessive noun, and is therefor...
- by theforrestgump
Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:17 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 1000 SC - 415
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7414
2. Surveys show that every year only 10 percent of cigarette smokers switch brands. Yet the manufacturers have been spending an amount equal to 10 percent of their gross receipts on cigarette promotion in magazines. It follows from these figures that inducing cigarette smokers to switch brands did ...
- by theforrestgump
Sun Oct 09, 2011 11:43 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: confusing sales tax and cigarette smoking: assumption Q.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5396
OA is C . But do you have a proper explanation for C to be the OA? (C) The carbon-14 dating process is unreliable for objects dating from before 60,000 BC. FOR BC the years are counted backwards (like a countdown) 70,000BC come before 60,000BC, which comes before 50,000BC and so on. According to ch...
- by theforrestgump
Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:09 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Carbon Dating
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2059
The Earth’s rivers constantly carry dissolved salts into its oceans. Clearly, therefore, by taking the resulting increase in salt levels in the oceans over the past hundred years and then determining how many centuries of such increases it would have taken the oceans to reach current salt levels ...
- by theforrestgump
Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:13 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: salt deposit
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1824
It is still not out of scope, because the author mentions thatmundasingh123 wrote:maneouver is not mentioned in the argument
Each species of moth has an optimal body temperature for effective flight.
Effective flight can be anything...greater speed, better maneuver, all fall in scope..
- by theforrestgump
Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:11 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Species of Moth
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11556
- by theforrestgump
Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:08 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Species of Moth
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11556
The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best Candidates to the job. The above statement implies that the best candidates don't take the job. No, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have littl...
- by theforrestgump
Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:24 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: official salary for judges
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2015
- by theforrestgump
Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:14 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: CR
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1164
- by theforrestgump
Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:40 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Postal Service
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2216
Just bumping this thread up...In answer choice (A). I do realize that the second part can stand on it's own because it has a "Subject" and a "working verb" . But then is it alright to make it stand on its own? I mean isnt it a part of Dr. Myrna Weissman's study? And can a pronoun...
- by theforrestgump
Fri Oct 07, 2011 3:03 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Depressed People
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2686
Wow, Geva thank you so much for that. Just one more question. I read your article with the Ruffe fish (lovely post btw) and I realized that in that particular question, I was able to capture the crux of the argument. The argument was very clear in my mind and I knew in essence what was the kind of ...
- by theforrestgump
Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:15 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: another MGMAT CAT Googly
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3632
Wow, Geva thank you so much for that. Just one more question. I read your article with the Ruffe fish (lovely post btw) and I realized that in that particular question, I was able to capture the crux of the argument. The argument was very clear in my mind and I knew in essence what was the kind of a...
- by theforrestgump
Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:15 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: another MGMAT CAT Googly
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3632