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In 1973 mortgage payments represented twenty-one percent of an average thirty-year-old male's income; and forty-four percent in 1984. (A) income; and forty-four percent in 1984 -------- "and" is a conjunction and is used to connect two clauses ...here the second part "forty-four perce...
- by mittalashwani13
Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:16 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Elliptical clauses
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7923
According to some analysts, whatever its merits, the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment. After dropping the modifiers and extra stuff, the above sentence can be written in simple If-Then C...
- by mittalashwani13
Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:41 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: proposal
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1391
ok ...then guys consider this example.. Like the Egyptian pharaohs, Shih Huangdi started to build his tomb the moment he became king and some 700,000 conscripts worked for 36 years to complete it. This sentence is correct..and now tell me why "it" is used here??? Give me some good logic!!...
- by mittalashwani13
Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:49 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: try if u can
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4161
- by mittalashwani13
Sun Jul 05, 2009 7:39 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: try if u can
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4161
To me, None of the options makes sense...
Talking in GMAT terms,
A,B and C are out because of "there are" ...
D is out because of missing verb in the subordinate clause ...(INTERFERING)
E is out because of (AND can interfere)
I'm not sure if I'm missing something here...
- by mittalashwani13
Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:55 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: magnetic fields
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1608
D sounds awkward to me. Also it is distorting the meaning. Can you please elaborate a bit....how does it distort the meaning ? important is an adjective and hence should be placed next to noun it modifies. important body is better than important as a body . Is it right to write it as follows? The f...
- by mittalashwani13
Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:38 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC - Papers of Federalist
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4527
This looks logical...but it looks like there is something more to it....Please see the following question from OG-10, Q233. Here OA is "C". But the sentence following the "while" does not have subject in the same. Is there some exception to the rule that you mentioned.... It see...
- by mittalashwani13
Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:12 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: why "while willing" is wrong in Q 68, OG11
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5682
Re: Although vs When
Under high pressure and intense heat, graphite, the most stable form of pure carbon, changes into the substance commonly referred to as diamond and remaining this way whether or not the heat and pressure are removed. A. remaining this way whether or not B. remaining like that even as C. remaining a...
- by mittalashwani13
Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:03 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Although vs When
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8602
Hi All, I looked at other forum for "such as" Vs "Such X as Y" Looks like there is no difference in the same in GMAT. Please see the reasoning from Manhattan instructors for the same at the link below: http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/the-success-of-the-program-to-eradicate-s...
- by mittalashwani13
Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:56 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC- Is there any difference ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1945
OK...Let's remove some extra stuff ... and Let me ask you two questions ... Recently implemented "shift-work equations" based on studies of the human sleep cycle have reduced sickness, sleeping on the job, and fatigue among shift workers while raising production efficiency in various indu...
- by mittalashwani13
Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:23 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: why "while willing" is wrong in Q 68, OG11
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5682
Hi Ashwani, This looks logical...but it looks like there is something more to it....Please see the following question from OG-10, Q233. Here OA is "C". But the sentence following the "while" does not have subject in the same. Is there some exception to the rule that you mentione...
- by mittalashwani13
Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:06 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: why "while willing" is wrong in Q 68, OG11
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5682
Re: why "while willing" is wrong in Q 68, OG11
//Unlike computer skill or other technicle skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are week// a, b,unlike computer skills or other technical skills, which they admit they lack, many people are disinclined to recognize tha...
- by mittalashwani13
Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:28 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: why "while willing" is wrong in Q 68, OG11
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5682
Can someone please tell what does the below highlighted "that" points to in D. "D. is as vivid in its details of personal life as that gathered " "That" is referring to the "historical account" .. Thanks. Just one small doubt... Can historical account be gath...
- by mittalashwani13
Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:16 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Written in ink or engraved by stylus,
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15887
IMO still D will win....because E still suffers the same problem as of original E....i.e. ""while willing" is actually modifying "analytical skills" if we go by the logic of immediately preceding noun.... or atmax "weakness of Analytical skills"....if we go by nou...
- by mittalashwani13
Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:58 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: why "while willing" is wrong in Q 68, OG11
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5682
Not only X but Y I is idiomatically incorrect on GMAT the correct idioms are: Not X but Y Not only X but also Y XY parallelism hast to be maintained. IMO Not only X but [also] Y. is correct idiom that is liked by GMAT.... Please see the Q#216 and Q#241 of OG-10..... In the explanations of these que...
- by mittalashwani13
Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:39 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Economic Indicators
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10593