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I also come down to option D. @Experts , Please explain why D is wrong. Thanks A, B and D: more efficient assembly lines than before Here, the intended meaning is unclear. Interpretation 1: The number of efficient assembly lines has increased. Whereas before there were FEWER assembly lines that wer...
- by solitaryreaper
Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:07 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC - Modifier
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- by solitaryreaper
Fri Jun 30, 2017 4:42 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC - Modifier
- Replies: 8
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Some patients who do not respond to therapies of depression
Some patients who do not respond to therapies of depression may simply have received inadequate treatment, having, for example been prescribed a drug as a dosage too low to be effective or having been taken off a drug too soon. A having, for example been prescribed a drug as a dosage too low to be e...
- by solitaryreaper
Sun Feb 05, 2017 11:46 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Some patients who do not respond to therapies of depression
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The industrial pollutants known as PCB’s were first
The industrial pollutants known as PCB’s were first manufactured in 1929 and were used as coolants for electrical equipment in Europe and North America until the 1970s, when studies showed that the compounds had entered the food chain and were harmful to some animals. (A) that the compounds had en...
- by solitaryreaper
Thu Dec 29, 2016 9:14 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The industrial pollutants known as PCB’s were first
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The misuse of less is not the only error in B and E. In B and E, surviving serves to modify rhinos occupy , implying that act of SURVIVING is HOW the rhinos OCCUPY a small fraction of the species' former range. This meaning is illogical. In the OA, occupying serves to modify rhinos survive , implyi...
- by solitaryreaper
Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:23 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG Verbal review 2017: Sumatran Rhinos (Meaning + # )
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None of the houses that Frank Lloyd Wright built in the
None of the houses that Frank Lloyd Wright built in the Prairie Style actually stood on the prairie, though the drawings in the 1910 Wasmuth edition of his work shows the buildings in the vast spaces of an imaginary Wild West. A. work shows the buildings B. work shows that the buildings were C. work...
- by solitaryreaper
Mon Dec 12, 2016 5:08 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: None of the houses that Frank Lloyd Wright built in the
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None of the houses that Frank Lloyd Wright built in the Prai
None of the houses that Frank Lloyd Wright built in the Prairie Style actually stood on the prairie, though the drawings in the 1910 Wasmuth edition of his work shows the buildings in the vast spaces of an imaginary Wild West. A. work shows the buildings B. work shows that the buildings were C. work...
- by solitaryreaper
Mon Dec 12, 2016 5:07 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: None of the houses that Frank Lloyd Wright built in the Prai
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E: Nineteenth-century doctors thought that alcohol...was broken down only by the liver; recent studies, however, lead to the doctors' conclusion that the stomach breaks down up to 20 percent of ingested alcohol . Here, the usage of the in the red portion seems to refer to THE specific set of doctor...
- by solitaryreaper
Mon Dec 12, 2016 4:54 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Nineteenth-century doctors thought that alcohol, when ingest
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Nineteenth-century doctors thought that alcohol, when ingest
Nineteenth-century doctors thought that alcohol, when ingested, passed through the stomach into the bloodstream and was broken down only by the liver; recent studies, however, have led them to conclude that the stomach breaks down up to 20 percent of ingested alcohol before it reaches the liver. A h...
- by solitaryreaper
Sun Dec 11, 2016 12:29 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Nineteenth-century doctors thought that alcohol, when ingest
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3950
Thanks for the confirmation Mitch.No.
Words that are omitted but implied must appear in the sentence BEFORE the point of omission.
- by solitaryreaper
Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:47 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG 2017 SC 241
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6631
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Words that are omitted but implied must appear in the sentence BEFORE the point of omission.
Thanks for the confirmation Mitch.
- by solitaryreaper
Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:46 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG 2017 SC 241
- Replies: 5
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Ellipsis is the omission of words whose presence is implied. Generally, only words that appear EARLIER IN THE SENTENCE may be omitted. A: Of all the record companies involved in early jazz, the three most prominent [?] were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh. Here, it's crystal clear that the bracketed por...
- by solitaryreaper
Wed Nov 02, 2016 2:48 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG 2017 SC 241
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6631
- by solitaryreaper
Tue Nov 01, 2016 5:41 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: astronomers had/have discovered 17 nearby stars
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OG 2017 SC 241
Of all the record companies involved in early jazz, the three most prominent were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh. A.Of all the record companies involved in early jazz, the three most prominent were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh. B.Three most prominent record companies of all the ones that were involved in...
- by solitaryreaper
Tue Nov 01, 2016 5:26 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG 2017 SC 241
- Replies: 5
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Note the following: In the OA, the referent for she (subject pronoun) seems to be Elizabeth Barrett Browning's (a possessive). In years past, this sort of construction was thought to be an error on the GMAT. The OA to SC138 in the OG16 establishes a precedent: On the current GMAT, it is permissible...
- by solitaryreaper
Tue Nov 01, 2016 2:45 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be
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