OG11 Q. No. 91

Businesses are suffering bacause of a lack of money available for development loans. To help businesses, the government plans to modify the income-tax structure in order to induce taxpayers to put a larger portion of their incomes into retirements savings accounts, because as more money is deposited...

Wat is the diff. b/w 'like' and 'as'

I am not able to find a sureshot guideline for when to use 'as' and when 'like'. In Manhattan sentence correction, an explaination is given for it. It says that if nouns are being compared 'like' is to be used. But when it is verb or adverb, 'as' has to be used and 'like' will be gramatically wrong ...

B is the choice between B & E because B is using 'measuring' instead of 'to measure'. 'ing' form is preferred because with skills it is always 'ing' form which is right to use. you will never find "skill to swing" .. it will be "skill in/at swinging" there r many more similar...

besides being idiomatically correct, C is gramatically correct too, unlike B.

No .. "natural outgrowth" is associated with "coolness of judgment and mutability of purpose" and not with "religious zeal". Only modifying "coolness of judgment and mutability of purpose" makes sense because "religious zeal" cannot be the outgrowth ...

A: Not gramatically correct. Would be correct if first part of the sentence would be in past participle instead of present tense. B: 'a number' is incorrect C: suggest that students have reached high and not their number .. wrong that is why. D: Correct. Uses 'the number of students' with right gram...

GMAT doesn't require 'weather' to have second part necessarily. This trend can be seen in other questions of OG as well. And remeber it always prefers 'weather' over 'if' when it comes to chosing between 2 options, although sentence many not have the second option written explicitly. One more exampl...