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B. "one of its employees" is not matching with "those employees". It should have been "that" employee C. "corporations" is not matching with "its" D. "corporations" is not matching with "it" E. "whose employees" is not m...
- by bonetlobo
Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:36 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: criminal law Source Gmat prep
- Replies: 2
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The opening modifier is "Currently 26 billion barrels a year". So, this should be followed by "what" is currently 26 billion barrels a year. The answer is: World consumption of oil. Only A seems to conform with this structure. Is this an official question? Looks like one of the e...
- by bonetlobo
Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:32 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: currently 26 billion barrels Source Gmat prep
- Replies: 2
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I seem to remember reading an expert post that in GMAT the usage of auxiliary verb + that is incorrect. But here, in option D, this structure seems to be used: is that.
Can an expert please comment on this.
- by bonetlobo
Sun Aug 09, 2015 1:36 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG 16
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12059
I believe I read an expert post somewhere that "which" and "in which" behave in the same manner.
By that logic, "in which" should have modified "electronic data interchange", but is actually modifying "critical tasks".
Can an expert please explain.
- by bonetlobo
Sun Aug 09, 2015 1:11 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG16- Computers vs on paper
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2512
- by bonetlobo
Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:39 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC Q6GMATPrep- EXPERT HELP NEEDED
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6454
This makes sense; but is it possible that "it" is used as a placeholder here?GMATGuruNY wrote: Semantically, the only logical referent for it is polar ice.
- by bonetlobo
Sat Aug 01, 2015 6:11 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT Test 2
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3034
Hello GMATGuruNY, can you please reply. I am also confused by the same question.prachi18oct wrote: Here what is the referent of "it"?
- by bonetlobo
Fri Jul 31, 2015 9:16 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT Test 2
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3034
Another related question I had was that what's the difference between these sentences:
a) Clark has been owned a car since he turned 18
b) Clark has been owning a car since he turned 18
Is there a meaning difference?
- by bonetlobo
Sun Jun 07, 2015 9:19 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: grammatical Q
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1814
D Vs E is indeed confusing.
Is D incorrect because the first "discipline" is coming out as a bossy verb, while second "discipline" is not coming out as bossy verb?
- by bonetlobo
Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:40 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC Doubt
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2218
- by bonetlobo
Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:44 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Sentence Correction Help
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2296
Hello Vivian, I could not locate the attachment. Can you let me know how to access it?VivianKerr wrote:I attached the compilation of all the GMATPrep RC passages, so you have plenty of solid practice material
- by bonetlobo
Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:05 pm- Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
- Topic: HELP! High Quant - Very low Verbal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5179
Hi all, If I may kindly seek your advice: While solving SC questions, I have been able to successfully narrow down to two answer choices on toughest questions. However, getting to a 50-50 percent on picking the right answer. That's actually not bad at all. Assuming: i) 10% of all questions would fa...
- by bonetlobo
Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:01 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Sentence Correction Help
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2296
Hi Mitch because following is not an Independent clause "that at some time in the past our ancestors suffered an event that greatly reduced their numbers and thus our genetic variation", can we safely conclude that two Independent clauses cannot be connected by a hyphen?
- by bonetlobo
Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:36 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: can two independent clauses be joined by a hyphen ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5465
In the that -clause, the only one serves as the implied SUBJECT of the verb has . Yes Mitch, this is very clear, In the where -clause, the only one serves as an implied ADVERB, conveying WHERE this predator REMAINS . Can you please explain this slightly. "the only one" refers to "Min...
- by bonetlobo
Sat May 23, 2015 7:14 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Minnesota is the only one of the contiguous forty-eight stat
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2900
Hello Mitch, doesn't "by far" mean "till now". So, when we say: "John is by far the tallest member of the team", I feel it means that John is till now the tallest, but this many not continue in future; so in future, someone else may become taller than John. Is this unde...
- by bonetlobo
Sat May 23, 2015 3:51 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Gmatprep SC
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2224