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- by Kajiabeat
Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:20 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: National Association(45)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2599
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 Sep 04, 2011 3:14 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: exporter of honey
- Replies: 43
- Views: 24164
Hi Mitch, Could you please shed some lights on D and E? which one is right and why? I think the completed version should be: x times as many institutions charge A as those charge B. and here we cannot change "charge" to "charging" but the "those" can be omitted as it ha...
- by Kajiabeat
Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:57 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: National Association(45)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2599
Oh~~~I see~~thank you Ron!lunarpower wrote:no. "each of which" -- like "which" by itself -- must be followed by a verb. there's no verb in that construction.Kajiabeat wrote:what's the difference between C and D? I think both of them are right.....
- by Kajiabeat
Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:33 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Brutal SC - 51
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11805
kajiabeat, you shouldn't try to "fill in" the rest of the sentence, especially in comparisons. in general, if you try to "fill in missing words" in a comparison, you will get an awkward or incorrect construction. in comparisons, you should just determine whether the existing por...
- by Kajiabeat
Sat Sep 03, 2011 3:55 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Only seven people this century
- Replies: 31
- Views: 21096
It should not be an issue of support for/to, it is a problem of provide...for/to.
and provide should be matched with "for" for no doubt.
- by Kajiabeat
Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:56 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: "to do" vs "for doing", help, pls
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18247
Hi Mitch,
could you confirm the usage of "whose" in D is right?
and what's the problem with choice B?
Thank you very much!
- by Kajiabeat
Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:17 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Whose
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8481
Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies�less than those killed by bee stings. A. movies�less than those B. movies�fewer than have been C. movies, which is less than those D. movies, a number lower than the people E. movies, fewer t...
- by Kajiabeat
Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:44 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Only seven people this century
- Replies: 31
- Views: 21096
- by Kajiabeat
Fri Aug 26, 2011 3:38 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: cultivated herb
- Replies: 28
- Views: 18431
the issue here is to discuss why the herb, not that closely related group, can grow in that extremly hostile environment. Therefore C out. no. if you have a group of other plants that are “closely related� and that have the same abnormal ability, then seeing the same correlation across the boar...
- by Kajiabeat
Fri Aug 26, 2011 3:28 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: cultivated herb
- Replies: 28
- Views: 18431
Hi Ron, in this context, whether "Ican Highway extends from....to...." and "Ican Highway was extended from ....to...." both are right? we pick E just because D has "being". I mean, talking about highway, "extend" is more used in "passive voice" or &q...
- by Kajiabeat
Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:03 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Incan Highway
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8902
I'm not sure about D, 1."for which" vs."in which", I guess "in which" is a little better as it seems more concrete, but for which is also fine. 2. "entering the cigarette" vs"that enters the cigarette", both are OK, a red herring. 3."thereby&quo...
- by Kajiabeat
Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:50 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Tobacco SC
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10805
i'm also a little confused about the "after exhausting its oil reserve" in D.... why and how is it wrong? how can we decide the subject of the verb "exhaust"? it should be "Alaska" or "fund"?
- by Kajiabeat
Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:27 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Sentence Correction - alaska
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13115
Why D is not a weaken statement? though I get that E is the very best, but I'm still confused about the logic to eliminating D , is it not right or just not as good as E? What I think is that D can also imply that the company don't need to care (because they don't think there's serious social impact...
- by Kajiabeat
Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:10 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: The OLEX Petroleum Company has recently determined that it
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7792
Kajiabeat did you pm ron Regarding "standards as stringent as those of diesel vehicles":how can vehicles own standards as stringent for diesel vehicles : But as conjunction when used for comparison must be followed by a clause .there is no subject or verb Yes I did. and thank you for the ...
- by Kajiabeat
Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:37 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Emission Testing
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6794