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There are three different issues here. The first is that the verb to be chosen must be singular because the subject is RATIO. The second is the choice of either IS or HAS BEEN. Clearly, you must choose HAS BEEN because the sentence is talking about something that has been the case SINCE 1960 until t...
- by fabiocafarelli
Wed May 04, 2016 3:13 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Usage of since, always with present perfect?
- Replies: 1
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I can understand your perplexity about this matter: a few decades ago, the form JAZZ PIANIST AND COMPOSER THELONIOUS MONK would have been considered hardly acceptable in educated writing, as it would have had to be preceded by the article THE. The dropping of the article is the result of the influen...
- by fabiocafarelli
Wed May 04, 2016 2:17 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Clarity between noun modifier and nouns
- Replies: 1
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1. In the given sentence you should notice that there are two clauses before the first comma: RESEARCHERS SAY is the first, and the rest is an incomplete clause of condition: if allowed to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa . The clause is incomplete because it cont...
- by fabiocafarelli
Wed May 04, 2016 1:45 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: subject less clause
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2733
1. In the given sentence you should notice that there are two clauses before the first comma: RESEARCHERS SAY is the first, and the rest is an incomplete clause of condition: if allowed to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa . The clause is incomplete because it conta...
- by fabiocafarelli
Mon May 02, 2016 1:49 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: subject less clause
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2733
If certain things SHOW something TO HAVE BEEN in a particular place, the idea is that those things were in that place at some unspecified past moment. Thus, the sentence would be saying that at some time Wright's houses actually stood in the Wild West. This is directly contradictory of what the sent...
- by fabiocafarelli
Sun May 01, 2016 8:40 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Frank Lloyd Wright
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1850
During the late 1960's and 1970's, funding for space missions fell by nearly 70 percent from its peak in 1968 down to its nadir in 1977. A) During the late 1960's and 1970's, funding for space missions fell by nearly 70 percent from its peak in 1968 down to its nadir in 1977. B) During the late 196...
- by fabiocafarelli
Sun May 01, 2016 2:28 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Space mission funding
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1486
Ryonosuke Akutagawa's knowledge of the literatures of Europe, China, and that of Japan were instrumental in his development as a writer, informing his literary style as much as the content of his fiction. A) that of Japan were instrumental in his development as a writer, informing his literary styl...
- by fabiocafarelli
Sun May 01, 2016 2:16 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Ryonosuke Akutagawa's knowledge of the literatures
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1189
Option E is wrong for the following reason. It states that the drawings in the 1910 Wasmuth edition show his works to have been in the vast spaces of an imaginary Wild West . Thus, the drawings show the works TO HAVE BEEN in those spaces. This means that in the present (Present Simple: SHOW) the dra...
- by fabiocafarelli
Sun May 01, 2016 1:23 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Frank Lloyd Wright
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1850
Covering 71 percent of Earth’s surface, the oceans play an essential role in maintaining the conditions for human existence on land, moderating temperature by the absorption of heat and carbon dioxide, and giving pure water back to the atmosphere through evaporation. A) Covering 71 percent of Ear...
- by fabiocafarelli
Sat Apr 30, 2016 1:41 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Covering 71 percent of Earth’s surface
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5836
With corn, soybean, and wheat reserves being low enough so a poor harvest would send prices skyrocketing, grain futures brokers and their clients are especially interested in weather that could affect crops. A) being low enough so The form ADJECTIVE + ENOUGH + SO + NOUN (low enough so a ... harvest...
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Sat Apr 30, 2016 1:23 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: With corn, soybean, and wheat reserves
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5334
The easiest way to resolve this question is through the correlative conjunctions NOT ... BUT that appear in the given sentence. Like other correlative conjunctions, these must be followed by a parallel structure. Eliminate A because not as a sign ... rather a sign omits BUT and is not parallel. Elim...
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Tue Apr 26, 2016 11:05 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Many experts regarded the large increase
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4607
C)one of the most significant developments of the nineteenth century, turned cotton cloth into an affordable, however costly previously, commodity Hi Experts , Just a quick clarification, in the above sentence HOWEVER can not be followed by semicolon because HOWEVER is a part of the single sentence...
- by fabiocafarelli
Tue Apr 26, 2016 10:32 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: cotton gin
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1733
1. An assumption is a missing premise: one on which the validity of the conclusion depends. Thus, option C will not be the correct answer if does not validate the conclusion of the passage. 2. The conclusion here is that Sviatovin must have been written between 1165 and 1167 . The main premises supp...
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Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:29 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: An assumption - written in 1165 ~ 1167
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1295
Option C is wrong for the following reason. The sentence that it makes refers first to senior citizens with higher than average cholesterol and then to the notion that a predisposition to cardiovascular disease runs in the family . It connects the two with AND. But AND cannot connect them, because t...
- by fabiocafarelli
Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:05 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Senior Citizens
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1000
1. It would in my opinion be difficult to argue that this is an assumption question. The final sentence of the passage ends with BECAUSE. This means, first, that the conclusion is in the preceding part of the sentence, and second, that you must find a statement providing evidence for that conclusion...
- by fabiocafarelli
Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:49 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: An assumption- loss in computer industry
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2374