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Thanks for the reply. It makes perfect sense. I thought about the verb may have been subjunctive when I found my answer was wrong. But I am still not sure if "specify" can be automatically regarded as subjunctive verb, or it just become subjunctive mood because of the context of the senten...
- by atsu4320
Sat May 15, 2010 12:56 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: subject-verb agreement
- Replies: 6
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I think "tentacles" are "spawned" and "extending." It is sort of the former is passive (by a single ferlilize ---) and later is active (tentacles extend itself). This is more like a mixed modifier problem combined with parallelism rather than just a simple parallelism p...
- by atsu4320
Sat May 15, 2010 8:09 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: When to use verb+ing or to+verb
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1873
subject-verb agreement
I have some trouble with subject-verb agreement. How come the verb "have" not "has"? The subject of the dependent clause is "the economy," so I thought verb should be "has" instead of "have." The treaty specifies that the economy of the member nation...
- by atsu4320
Sat May 15, 2010 7:42 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: subject-verb agreement
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2382
Do you know any technique or strategy specifically for this from your experiance or expertise? Hi, I am not Andrea, but I can give you some tips for identifying (necessary) assumptions: --ask what else MUST be true in order for the argument to stand --if you think an answer choice is an assumption,...
- by atsu4320
Mon May 03, 2010 9:57 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: How do you indentify Assumption?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1681
Not knowing what GMAT materials you've tried so far, it's hard to recommend other study materials. But for extensive assumption practice and access to a ton of practice questions, you might try looking into LSAT prep materials; identifying the assumption is a significant part of that test, and ther...
- by atsu4320
Sun May 02, 2010 7:47 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: How do you indentify Assumption?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1681
How do you indentify Assumption?
Hi, I have really been struggled to study CR because I have some serious problem in identifying Assumption in a given argument. I think I am fairly good at finding Conclusion and Premises, however when it comes to Assumption, I am just unable to do that. I have read some books and tried some techiqu...
- by atsu4320
Sat May 01, 2010 9:30 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: How do you indentify Assumption?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1681
I am in the same boat. It seems skimming technique (i.e. read first and last sentence of 1st and last paragraph and first of the rest, etc.) does not give you clear idea of the passage like this. C and A... The paragraph is difficult to understand specially for a non native speaker.. Can somebody te...
- by atsu4320
Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:59 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Supreme Court held that
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10990
I still dont get the AnExp. why miles can rage 284-295 instead of 285-294 where problem states Cindy traveled 290 miles rounded to the nearest 10 miles. Same goes with gasoline. Why 11.4 to 12.5 gallons instead of 11.5 to 12.4?
Can anybody tell me what I am missing here?
Thanks.
- by atsu4320
Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:35 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Question # 129 for PS in OG11.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2120
- by atsu4320
Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:46 pm- Forum: Suggestions and Feedback
- Topic: site not working
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2001
site not working
Just wanted to let you know that all the links in the home page is not working. this has happned before. I am not able to read any article. When hit the link an error message comes up and says need to download. Please fix. Thanks!!
- by atsu4320
Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:30 pm- Forum: Suggestions and Feedback
- Topic: site not working
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2001