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Providing initial evidence that airport are a larger source of pollution than they were once believed to be, environmentalists in Chicago report that the total amount of pollutant emitted annually by vehicles at O'Hare International Airport is twice as much as that which is being emitted annually by...
- by ansumania
Sat Jul 24, 2010 7:51 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Chicago Airport
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6884
will someone pl. tell 'what will be the exact negation of statement D?'
In statements containing 'unless' , how to negate it?
- by ansumania
Sat Jul 24, 2010 6:38 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Endangered species
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4288
- by ansumania
Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:38 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: census
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8471
Here the new element is ‘successful business’ , so we need to link this new element to the premise in order to bridge the gap P= by dividing attention, it doesn’t serve any of its customers well C= to be successful, it must serve one of its customers well. Assumption: to be successful , it mus...
- by ansumania
Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:25 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Train service suffers!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2739
received a pm. The conclusion is the last sentence of the passage. Note the ambitiousness/extremity of the conclusion. The author argues that if major industries increase their capital reserves, the employment rate WILL NOT decline. To weaken, we just need to find a choice that tells us there are o...
- by ansumania
Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:41 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: employment rate
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2561
Consumer activist: By allowing major airlines to abandon, as they promptly did, all but their most profitable routes, the government’s decision to cease regulation of the airline industry has worked to the disadvantage of everyone who lacks access to large metropolitan airport. Industry represent...
- by ansumania
Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:01 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: CR:Effective Reasoning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3040
- by ansumania
Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:08 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Blood banks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1965
- by ansumania
Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:51 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Addiction
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1452
Ok, thanks for the source. Let's use some different sentences to examine the principle. :) The original sentence: The use of GMAT books is based on the assumption that studying produces hormones in an individual that, in turn, create unconscious physical responses. (Yes, I know the meaning of the s...
- by ansumania
Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:29 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Lie Detectors
- Replies: 68
- Views: 33716
or should be because the touch rule , which says , the modifier should modify the noun it touches:
here 'in attributing....., the perpetrators ' , so the modifier should automatically refer to the noun it touches and therefore wrong......
pl. respond to my previous first and then this one.....thanks
- by ansumania
Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:28 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their client
- Replies: 32
- Views: 25047
Stacey, thanks a lot for the wonderful reply! coming back to the original question for this chain: Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients' misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, but in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy, the per...
- by ansumania
Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:22 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their client
- Replies: 32
- Views: 25047
Thanks a lot Ron for your reply. I guess now I understood. It always refers to the agent (which is considered to be the subject , though it might not be the real subject at times as far as the actual sentence is concerned. Pl. acknowledge so that I can be sure. Again, I have read your posts regardi...
- by ansumania
Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:39 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Most brutal SC #19
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10605
here can we have 'outnumbering' to modify the wole previous clause? Pl. help. Paraphrasing: Her letters to another person were written over a long period of time, outnumbering her letters to any other person. To be constructed correctly, the words in the modifier must refer to the entire preceding ...
- by ansumania
Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:37 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: "ing" Modifier Three Different Versions in OG????
- Replies: 129
- Views: 69953
A is good here. Let's say there are 7,000,000 people travel by air. In that case 700 is just 0.01% If for each other mode of transportation 100 people are traveling and 7 deaths, then also it is 7%, which is more. Therefore, A is correct Air Travel is becoming increasingly more dangerous. In the la...
- by ansumania
Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:16 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Air Travel--Kaplan
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3991
Although few would disagree that small classrooms of a maximum of 15 students are ideal environments in which to educate the young, financially strained counties point out that small classrooms cost twice as much as maintaining regular sized classrooms. A. small classrooms cost twice as much as mai...
- by ansumania
Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:00 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Parallelism
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1630