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A COMMA + VERBing modifier may not serve to modify another COMMA + VERBing modifier. But it is possible for two COMMA + VERBing modifiers to be linked only by a comma. The implication of this construction is that both COMMA + VERBing modifiers serve the SAME FUNCTION: to modify the preceding subjec...

by zoe

Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:16 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Starfish, with anywhere from five to eight arms, have a stro
Replies: 30
Views: 15610

A COMMA + VERBing modifier may not serve to modify another COMMA + VERBing modifier. But it is possible for two COMMA + VERBing modifiers to be linked only by a comma. The implication of this construction is that both COMMA + VERBing modifiers serve the SAME FUNCTION: to modify the preceding subjec...

by zoe

Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:15 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Starfish, with anywhere from five to eight arms, have a stro
Replies: 30
Views: 15610

The two that -clauses are linked not by a conjunction but by a dash. Hi Mitch, as read this thread, talking about two THAT clause connection, I recalled my unanswered post about two complete sentence connection without conjunction it will be appreciate if you can help answer the following topic. ht...

by zoe

Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:12 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: can two independent clauses be joined by a hyphen ?
Replies: 10
Views: 5456

The two that -clauses are linked not by a conjunction but by a dash. Hi Mitch, as read this thread, talking about two THAT clause connection, I recalled my unanswered post about two complete sentence connection without conjunction it will be appreciate if you can help answer the following topic. ht...

by zoe

Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:10 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: can two independent clauses be joined by a hyphen ?
Replies: 10
Views: 5456

Hi Zoe, The premise on which the conclusion is based is the bone flute discovered from a pre-historic era. In order for the conclusion to hold valid, that particular artefact has to tie in for the conclusion of the diatonic note dating much earlier. Option D talks about flutes in general and not th...

by zoe

Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:54 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: CR - fragment of bone fulte
Replies: 4
Views: 2254

dear experts, thanks for your patient to my question. I am a little confused about this statement's conclusion 1/ this conclusion includes two events ? Charging each household a fee for each pound of trash it puts out for collection will induce residents to reduce the amount of trash they create ; t...

by zoe

Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:02 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: If the county continues to collect residential trash
Replies: 6
Views: 6727

dear experts, thanks for your patient to my question. I am a little confused about this statement's conclusion 1/ this conclusion includes two events ? Charging each household a fee for each pound of trash it puts out for collection will induce residents to reduce the amount of trash they create ; t...

by zoe

Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:00 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: can two independent clauses be joined by a hyphen ?
Replies: 10
Views: 5456

MBA Challengers wrote:D. While this shows a connection between flutes and the diatonic scale, the connection between this particular bone flute and the diatonic scale remains weak. Incorrect
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hi friends,
would you explain further why the connection is weak ?

thanks a lot
have a nice weekend

>_~

by zoe

Fri Sep 30, 2016 2:43 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: CR - fragment of bone fulte
Replies: 4
Views: 2254

CR - fragment of bone fulte

The spacing of the four holes on a fragment of a bone flute excavated at a Neanderthal campsite is just what is required to play the third through sixth notes of the diatonic scale—the seven-note musical scale used in much of Western music since the Renaissance. Musicologists therefore hypothesize...

by zoe

Wed Sep 28, 2016 3:16 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: CR - fragment of bone fulte
Replies: 4
Views: 2254

I thought this question many times, I am still confused: Let one of the hypnotized subjects be John. Let John's brain be divided into two parts: a RED PART and a BLUE PART. The hypnotist tells the RED PART that John is deaf, with the result that the BLUE PART still believes that John can hear. Sinc...

by zoe

Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:22 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: CR -- deaf part and reply part
Replies: 4
Views: 1930

Check my post here: http://www.beatthegmat.com/og-12-qs-63-when-hypnotized-subjects-are-told-that-they-t280297.html Hi, GuruNY here is your explanation The argument concludes that the HEARING PART of the brain is disassociated from -- and thus cannot transfer information to -- the REPLYING PART of ...

by zoe

Mon Sep 26, 2016 2:44 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: CR -- deaf part and reply part
Replies: 4
Views: 1930

anyone can help to explain that why the stimulus mentions " the tips left by customers who pay their bill in cash "

I cannot figure out the function of it.

thanks a lot
have a nice weekend
>_~

by zoe

Sat Sep 24, 2016 4:46 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Studies in restaurants
Replies: 5
Views: 8956

hi instructors, I am always sunk in the issue that clause + prep + WH- pronouns I am have no idea that 1/ relative pronoun stands for. the noun proceeding WH- or noun after WH-, 2/ what's the order of the prep + WH- clause , in this case, please help clarify. it will be great if provide more example...

by zoe

Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:52 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland,
Replies: 6
Views: 8043

CR -- deaf part and reply part

When hypnotized subjects are told that they are deaf and are then asked whether they can hear the hypnotist, they reply, “No.� Some theorists try to explain this result by arguing that the selves of hypnotized subjects are dissociated into separate parts, and that the part that is deaf is dissoc...

by zoe

Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:30 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: CR -- deaf part and reply part
Replies: 4
Views: 1930

SC -absolute phrase

Hi instructors/experts, Unlike the original National Museum of Science and Technology in Italy, where the models are encased in glass or operated only by staff members, the Virtual Leonardo Project, an online version of the museum, encourages visitors to “touch� each exhibit, which thereby activ...

by zoe

Wed Sep 21, 2016 1:15 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: SC -absolute phrase
Replies: 0
Views: 1123