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Hey duongthang - are you talking about proper nouns, like people's names? For example: In her 1851 magazine series, which would later become the epic Uncle Tom's Cabin , Harriet Beecher Stowe's mission was to portray the hardships of slavery. Are the nouns "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Har...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:53 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: privat names in sc
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1126
Mohit - good question. Here's the thing with that sequence of events, though: "helped create" is already fixed in simple past, outside the underline. To assign "had" to "become known", you're then saying that the "become known as the Underground Railroad" even...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:24 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Before the Civil War, Harriet Tubman, along with other forme
- Replies: 8
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The good news for you - you know exactly where you need to improve...your Q48 is strong and you may notch that up a bit, but nearly all of your improvement should come from verbal, so you now know where to devote at least 75% of your study time. And actually - I'd argue that your situation is pretty...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:45 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Experts please pitch in
- Replies: 2
- Views: 963
Great stuff on using sets to solve this one - I love the discussion. And just for anyone who's stymied by the set theory on this and looking for an alternative, I'd check out the answer choices and what the question is *really* asking: "How many numbers between 1 and 100 are not divisible by 2,...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:28 am- Forum: GMAT Math
- Topic: (Sets) Please help me with this question !
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1773
Good question - and the usage of "to suggest" here isn't the "in order to" version of the infinitive...it's more like: "I've found a maid to clean my apartment." or "We've hired an outside firm to serve our IT needs." This explanation will be woefully untechni...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Fri Mar 15, 2013 8:53 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Confusing OG question.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1267
Hey Mission, Your questions are crucial to this problem - at its heart it's a pronoun question. Data can be singular or plural, but the outside-the-underline "they" is a big clue - as is the fact that the sentence uses "...they influence the upcoming decision by those same engineers&q...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Thu Mar 14, 2013 2:35 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Classic one by Veritas !
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3249
Great question - and the answer, honestly, is "that's above your pay grade". This question: http://www.beatthegmat.com/og-10-question-t16968.html Is a perfect example. That decision between "so x that y" and "so x as to y" is the bait in this one - it's what the GMAT is...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:10 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: So x that vs so x as to y
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1255
Don't get me wrong - if you eliminate "being" every time you'll be right on well over 90% of SC questions when you do so. But I know there are questions out there where it's used correctly, and they're bound to be among the more difficult since most students know the "being is wrong!&...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:58 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Classic one by Veritas !
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3249
Careful! "Being" ain't "ain't" - being is a legitimate word with legitimate usages...it highly correlated with incorrect answers on the GMAT but it's not always wrong (which is part of the lesson in this particular question). I'll tell you why E is wrong - "in consideration ...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:40 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Classic one by Veritas !
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3249
Great idea - that's pretty much a perfect strategy for where you're at right now. Learning the major error categories is important, but there are diminishing returns to reviewing the same grammar rules over and over outside the context of the way you'll see questions on the exam. Like you said, you ...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Tue Mar 12, 2013 1:01 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Thoughts on SC Strategy
- Replies: 2
- Views: 934
No, these are both wrong. "Than" is typically used in comparisons, in conjunction with a comparative term like "more", "less", bigger", "slower", etc. Neither of your sentence pairs "than" with a comparative term like that. These would work: 1) ...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:39 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC_Comparison
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1003
Good thoughts, all - and if I can add one big-picture takeaway here: One way to think about the difference between "because it diminishes" and "because of diminishing" is that "it diminishes" is very specific and clear. Sulfur dioxide is what diminishes the respiratory ...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:34 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC: GMAT Prep question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1403
Some great resources for hard SC questions include: -The GMAT Prep question pack add-on (I've been tutoring off of that add-on a lot...really recommend it) -The Official Guide verbal review (especially the last 30-40 questions of the SC section) -The Veritas Prep Advanced Verbal Strategy book (we co...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:57 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: hard SC on the test
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1535
Really good question and I agree that it's a pretty subtle difference. Here's one crack at explaining the difference: *where "to put" is parallel to "remain", the controlling phrase of both of them is "have been able to" - and that's a pretty logical parallel set of ite...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:22 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: In contrast to large steel plants
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1566
Great question - factorial problems that involve division almost always have the same key to solving them - you have to factor. Consider this question: What is the greatest value y for which 3^y is a factor of 10!? The key is to recognize that the question is really asking "how many times can 1...
- by Brian@VeritasPrep
Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:05 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: How to divide a factorial by an exponent...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3844