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Hi Ron Could you shed some light on choice B? which part is wrong and which part is OK, compared to choice C? 1.Is" be subjected to" right in meaning? what's the difference in meaning between this phrase and"be subject to"? 2.any difference in meaning between"standard for&qu...
- by Kajiabeat
Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:38 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Emission Testing
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6799
same confusion! the first major difference between A and E are two "the" ---before"devastation and enslavement" and before"native peoples", any difference in meaning? the second difference is the "have/has" used for the "that" clause, which decide wh...
- by Kajiabeat
Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:51 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Christopher Columbus
- Replies: 48
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Hi Ron, Could you help to see the choice C? I know it's inferior than B,but I'm not sure about the reasons. 1.plan for doing is worse than plan to do(in B) 2.and instead ---redundant?(Ron, is it wrong here or just redudant?) 3.intending----lots of people said it is wrong, but I think it could be jus...
- by Kajiabeat
Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:59 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT Prep SC - Finally reaching a decision on
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10500
Hi Mitch, C looks like a best of worse answer ... In C the 'X' and 'Y' that you mentioned for idiom are not parallel. Is this okay? or they are in parallel?? Here's C: ... both the Federal Reserve's decision ...and investors' speculation ... The construction above is parallel. Hi Mitch, Thank you f...
- by Kajiabeat
Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:56 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Both the Federal Reserve’s decision
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6245
The reasons for yesterday’s sharp rise in the stock market were much the same as that behind last week’s rally: a surge in the economy to a 5.6 percent annual growth rate and improved corporate earnings balanced by the lack of signs of inflationary pressure. A. that B. those C. what was D. for ...
- by Kajiabeat
Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:46 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT Prep SC - sharp rise in the stock market
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6748
Both the Federal Reserve’s decision
Both the Federal Reserve’s decision that borrowing rates be raised, along with investor’s speculation that another increase might be on the way, helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks by making deposits more attractive. A.that borrowing rates be raised, along with investor’s speculation tha...
- by Kajiabeat
Thu Aug 18, 2011 7:19 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Both the Federal Reserve’s decision
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6245
I think it should be D. We wanna support the hypothesis, we need to closely support the reasoning process of it. the issue here is to discuss why the herb, not that closely related group, can grow in that extremly hostile environment. Therefore C out. and there's no clue in the CR problems about the...
- by Kajiabeat
Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:25 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: cultivated herb
- Replies: 28
- Views: 18444
51. In his experiments with gravity, Isaac Newton showed how the motion of each planet in the solar system results from the combined gravitational pull of the Sun and of all the other planets, each contributing according to their mass and distance from the others. A. of all the other planets, each ...
- by Kajiabeat
Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:25 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Brutal SC - 51
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11818
Please can someone identify the correct option with explanations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q15: In little more than a decade, Argentina has become the world�s leading exporter of honey, with nearly 90,000 tons a y...
- by Kajiabeat
Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:47 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: exporter of honey
- Replies: 43
- Views: 24183
Hi Ron, About choice C, could you justify my resanong? firstly, the original meaning of the sentence is the the evidence suggests 2 things, but "with its trunk..." in choice C makes the second thing a modifier therefore not in the main structure of this sentence, therefore changes the mean...
- by Kajiabeat
Sat Jul 30, 2011 3:23 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Australian embryologists
- Replies: 40
- Views: 22651
"individual" is not a prepositional phrase, not by itself. By itself, it's a noun. And you can have an -ing word modify the noun in a prepositional phrase. (The prepositional phrase is "in an individual.") For example: Cheating causes problems for students trying to pass the tes...
- by Kajiabeat
Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:05 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Lie Detectors
- Replies: 68
- Views: 33723
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 Kajiabeat
Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:57 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Lie Detectors
- Replies: 68
- Views: 33723
Ron, Can you take a look at this problem?
the explanation OG gives about E is "Th e subordinate clause in the passive voice following although is awkward and unclear." I cannot understand it well.how this clause become askward and unclear?
Thank you!
- by Kajiabeat
Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:19 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: the peaks of a mountain range
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16810
the first issue in D, I guess, is that it is less parallel with the main clause than is A ,and there's a little change of focus from A to D. However, are they fatal errors? OR can we say that D is just a little worse than A? OG gives an explanation saying that D's backward time order of events is co...
- by Kajiabeat
Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:01 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG SC
- Replies: 28
- Views: 18911
Can any instructor explain the "that" in choices?
what does this"that" mean?? what are the both party of the comparison?
Eagerly waiting!
Thank you very much!
- by Kajiabeat
Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:16 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Written in ink or engraved by stylus,
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15887