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Last year the worldwide paper industry used over twice as much fresh pulp (pulp made directly from raw plant fibers) as recycled pulp (pulp made from wastepaper). A paper-industry analyst has projected that by 2010 the industry will use at least as much recycled pulp annually as it does fresh pulp, ...
- by tetura84
Sun May 08, 2011 5:06 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: paper industry
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1547
Let's take your first example. The book Mechant of Venice, a classical series ,which is written by ... Here, the comma separated part is an appositive. Appositive is a noun modifier that modifies the noun preceding it and it is separated by comma. So here, a classical series modifies MoV. And, which...
- by tetura84
Mon May 02, 2011 9:42 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Use of comma and which
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1769
C is correct? I doubt on that. After reading the posts, I concluded E. A and D out for redundancy issue. B in the maintaining of = this is wrong, when we have the noun, we should use noun(maintenance) I cannot imagine C is correct, I mean, what sort of structure is this? Base form of VERB + base for...
- by tetura84
Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:08 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Ideally, the professional career diplomat
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6006
D would be correct if 'it' was not present.
(D)that is known as the only hyper-modified DNA base in eukaryotes and it resembles
I mean,
(F) that is known as the only hyper-modified DNA base in eukaryotes and resembles
Is it correct? Any thoughts?
- by tetura84
Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:59 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Originally found in parasites
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1488
- by tetura84
Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:31 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Scientists have recently discovered---use of punctuation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2888
IMO D
I see you are looking for parallelism here.
But, I don't like "to be exonerated"
May be, the correct sentence would be, he was exonerated and freed.
- by tetura84
Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:26 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Framed by traitorous colleagues, Alfred
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4292
Good question raised by cracktheverbal, watching this topic. And also, thanks Atul for giving such good example(In fact, I first came to know about participle parallelism when I faced the question cited in your example :-)) I want to add few points here, I noticed past participle and present partici...
- by tetura84
Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:20 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMATPrep
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1360
Atul, I did not get your question. What I mean is, since in Oxford dictionary we don't have this pattern, we cannot use this rule here. I am not questioning about the pattern used in Oxford (how could I ? :-)) For our reference, I found wiki is very good in conjunctive adverb explanation http://en.w...
- by tetura84
Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:06 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Nevertheless.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15178
When we use conjunctive adverb, the pattern is,
IC + SEMICOLON + conjunctive adverb + COMMA + IC
IC = Independent clause
But in Oxford dictionary, we don't have this pattern.
- by tetura84
Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:01 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Nevertheless.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15178
I would rather prefer to avoid these kind of questions (and sources as well :-)) because this would only add confusion in my understanding. This sentence is clearly wrongly written. He cannot refer back to Marcel P. Remember, Possessive noun + non-possessive pronoun (subject or object pronoun) IS NO...
- by tetura84
Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:26 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: If Marcel Proust’s memory....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2747
David,
just to be sure I understand the tense, is this sentence correct?
A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities have been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.
- by tetura84
Sat Apr 02, 2011 4:36 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Verb tense issue
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1845
- by tetura84
Sat Apr 02, 2011 3:51 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Examination of reptile hearts shows...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2003
Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal, and its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel. (a).. (b) that has suggested the elephant descended from an aquatic animal, its trunk originally evolving (c)suggesting that the e...
- by tetura84
Sat Apr 02, 2011 3:12 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC Post 2 apr1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1842
I feel I should mention the general pattern here.
One of the Xs + <singular>
One of the Xs that/who + <plural>
Only one of the Xs + <singular>
Only one of the Xs that/who + <plural>
The only one of the Xs that/who + <singular>
- by tetura84
Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:16 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC Post 4 : Apr 1 [One more with the same concept...]
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1214
Atul, the mood is subjunctive (may). We use regular form of verb in case of subjunctive sentences. we say, May God bless you ! and not, May God blesses you !!! Also, when I was reading the sentence, I checked the non-underline portion. not only broaden the search for life .... In this case, it is br...
- by tetura84
Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:11 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Biologists working in Spain---confusing SC
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5300