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Just to explain my doubt further.
This seems ok: He is interested in dancing as well as running.
But how about this: He can dance as well as running. - This looks slightly awkward and I feel that option A is on similar lines.
Can you let me know what I am missing.
- by bonetlobo
Tue Aug 02, 2016 11:39 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Diesel engines burn as much as 30 percent
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Hello GMATGuruNY, I also have the same doubt. Is above sentence correct?divineacclivity wrote: Would this be correct: Cows can eat as well as mooing.
Also, is there some official example that you can perhaps cite that uses a similar construct.
- by bonetlobo
Tue Aug 02, 2016 11:35 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Diesel engines burn as much as 30 percent
- Replies: 25
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Only PARALLEL FORMS can be compared. E: Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, fewer than the ones killed by bee stings. Here, the killed in red serves not as a verb but as an ADJECTIVE describing ones . What KIND of ones? Ones KILLED BY BEES STINGS. As result, E ...
- by bonetlobo
Tue Aug 02, 2016 9:58 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Only seven people this century have been killed by the great
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Hi Mitch, option D also seems to be using future tense.
Can you explain why it's ok in D (and not ok in C).
- by bonetlobo
Wed Jul 20, 2016 9:31 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT Prep Exam 3 Q20
- Replies: 6
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implying that neuroscientists are NOW DRAWING conclusions at the same time as an action that took place in the PAST (the amassing of knowledge over the past twenty years). This sequence is illogical. Hello GMATGuruNY, had a related question. Wanted your opinion on this sentence: Edward studied at S...
- by bonetlobo
Wed Jun 15, 2016 10:49 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG16-51 VerbING part refers to which noun in a sentence?
- Replies: 4
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I am not able to understand the meaning of this sentence. Can someone please explain it. If geographic range of the sickle cell gene and malaria was the same, should it not mean that sickle cell gene and malaria occur together? Then, how is the sentence concluding that sickle cell gene is resistant ...
- by bonetlobo
Thu May 19, 2016 4:45 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC1
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3030
Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be the better poet than her husband, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning was overshadowed by his success. Hello Mitch, can you also clarify whether the original sentence has a pronoun error. The introductory clause is "Although she was consi...
- by bonetlobo
Sat May 14, 2016 6:21 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be
- Replies: 23
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From the OG10: Although accounting for only 5 percent of the world'€™s population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its nonrenewable resources. The structure here is as follows: VERBLESS CLAUSE + MAIN CLAUSE. In this structure, implied as the subject of the verbless clause is the subj...
- by bonetlobo
Wed May 04, 2016 8:49 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: subject less clause
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2728
aflaam, you have put OA as C, while in GMATGuruNY's post, the correct answer is D.
Can you please edit your post, so that there is no confusion.
- by bonetlobo
Tue May 03, 2016 12:29 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: To GMAT GuruNY: ,each
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I believe that the reason second one has been classified as adverb modifier, is because the modifier is answering the question: Why did she decide to leave. However, I feel that second one is acting as a noun modifier as well, because the participle is modifying the noun "she". May be a Ma...
- by bonetlobo
Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:07 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Noun modifier - mgmat
- Replies: 1
- Views: 955
@Verbal Experts - could you please let me know whether the following is an ERROR in option E: " ...Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia, whose music was significantly different from THAT of HIS own " -- is this construction in RED GRAMMATICALLY viable on GMAT ? Isn't it REDUNDANT ? This is obvi...
- by bonetlobo
Tue Apr 26, 2016 12:08 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Blue grass musician
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8024
The use of "having been" in A does seem strange, but what is the exact grammatical reason why A is incorrect.
- by bonetlobo
Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:01 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Question from GMAT Prep
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1335
Official Question: In preparation for the prediction...
In preparation for the prediction of a major earthquake that will hit the state, a satellite-based computer network is being built by the California Office of Emergency Services for identifying earthquake damage and to pinpoint the most affected areas within two hours of the event. (A) In preparati...
- by bonetlobo
Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:40 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Official Question: In preparation for the prediction...
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ing form with possessives
This is an OG Question- In virtually all types of tissue in every animal species, dioxin induces the production of enzymes that are the organism's trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it. OG says: This option is incorrect because the -ing form of a verb can be us...
- by bonetlobo
Thu Apr 14, 2016 2:14 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: ing form with possessives
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1032
THAT of HIS -- is this construction GRAMMATICALLY viable on GMAT ? I think,we can't use of - Prepositional phrase + POSSESSIVE together. Right ? Not understanding your question. So, are you asking the experts whether the following would be incorrect: Richard's shoe-size is bigger than that of his b...
- by bonetlobo
Wed Apr 13, 2016 5:53 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Blue grass musician
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8024