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Many Congratulations Eagleeye :). Patanjali is right in saying many of us who follow you were waiting for this story. Infact, in the past few days you were almost absent from BTG, though i see one or two replies in my Follow mail from BTG. You have been for inspiration for many. I hope you will cont...
- by shekhar.kataria
Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:26 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 770 (Q50,V47): How BEATtheGMAT helped me beat the GMAT!!
- Replies: 21
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Thanks Brain. That confirms both my doubts. This surely is a typo in the book. Hey Skekhar, Rest assured that B is wrong. Because the word "both" comes after "success", the "that of" at the end of B doesn't refer to anything. You could say: I care about both the success...
- by shekhar.kataria
Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:47 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Debatable Princeton Question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1023
Debatable Princeton Question
South Korea and Japan, which have the two most robust Capitalist economies in North Eastern Asia, have clawed their way back from the brink of financial ruin and now they take an active role in the success of both companies that are newer and smaller as well as large Conglomerates. A. now they take...
- by shekhar.kataria
Fri Aug 17, 2012 8:45 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Debatable Princeton Question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1023
- by shekhar.kataria
Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:50 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Pls give me an answer to this problem
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2314
Thanks Mitch. Its confirmed.
Got the wonderful link from egmat explaining exactly..
For anyone who wishes to learn about Appositves . Read This http://e-gmat.com/blogs/?p=584
- by shekhar.kataria
Wed Aug 15, 2012 4:17 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Appositives
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1477
Thanks Mitch for the quick response. SO, you mean we can modify a NOUN CLAUSE with a appositive. Till your response i thought that an appositive can only modify another noun or noun modifier but not a noun clause. Am i right in decoding what you meant in your above post ??? Hi All My Doubt is regard...
- by shekhar.kataria
Wed Aug 15, 2012 4:08 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Appositives
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1477
Appositives
Hi All My Doubt is regarding the usage of Appositives, Appositives are noun or noun phrases, which modify another noun/ noun phrases. However in one of the MGMAT SC, the correct sentense is not following this rule. Though it is now universally accepted that William Shakespeare was a real, historical...
- by shekhar.kataria
Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:00 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Appositives
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1477
Yeah i said correct for 4 because it is logically and structurally correct. However, you can eliminate for being wordy. IMO 1. incorrect - as is used to compare actions and thus 'as done' is required 2. correct 3. incorrect because not parallel - as ibuprofen does -> correct 4. incorrect - wordy - a...
- by shekhar.kataria
Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:43 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: comparison
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1050
- by shekhar.kataria
Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:14 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: comparison
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1050
First, More better idiom is COMPARED TO X,Y Second, i saw in one of the RON's post where he clarifies that there is no differnce between COMPARED TO / WITH. Between B and D. B is not concise and an awkward structure at the end "are containing nothing worth watching" 9) In comparison with t...
- by shekhar.kataria
Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:04 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: comparision
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1370
I think you point is right in the second part of the sentence "so that...would...everyone was" but WOULD HAVE TO BE POSTED is the wrong tense. 4) Although the human resource manager agreed to an abbreviated holiday schedule, he said that it must be posted on the corporate web site so that ...
- by shekhar.kataria
Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:55 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC PROBLEM - Q3
- Replies: 1
- Views: 832
IMO D too. C cannot be the correct answer because they is improper pronoun for singular Fraternity. Even the sentence in the non underlined part says that the fraternity is singular."The Gamma Fraternity HAS" Correct me if i am wrong... 6) The Gamma Xi fraternity has accused the Delta Lamd...
- by shekhar.kataria
Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:43 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC PROBLEM - Q1
- Replies: 1
- Views: 789
Debatable SC - Experts Please do revert
At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution, the most radical faction, that of Zapata and his followers, proposed a return to communal ownership of land, to what had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards. (A) land, to what had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership res...
- by shekhar.kataria
Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:11 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Debatable SC - Experts Please do revert
- Replies: 1
- Views: 952
Mitch I too Selected C here. :( Can you please explain why C is wrong here? Isn't it the case in this question that the author assumes the person who answers the question to know how winter season and two set of doors are linked? Moreover, what's wrong with C? I thought C gives an alternate reason t...
- by shekhar.kataria
Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:47 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Need Expert help
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3563
HI patanjali Can you Please check my answer just above your post. and Also please confirm my doubt over A. I have mentioned my doubt in the post above. Thanks in advance. In the late 1880s, the journalist Jacob Riis visited tenement dwellings in several impoverished New York City neighborhoods to in...
- by shekhar.kataria
Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:06 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Journalist Jacob Riis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2824