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guys are you relying on reasons of awkwardness to eliminate the incorrect answers . Can someone explain whats wrong with each of the options. I am not very satisfied with bubbly's method of restructuring the sentences In October 2001, responding to the devastating attack on New York’s World Trade...
- by rveeraga
Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:36 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Grockit - Modifier Question - Verb-ing Again
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1964
So You mean that we must not expect any result from an -ing modifier . Why is C wrong in the previous sentence ? The answer choice C is wrong because the opening modifiers are not in sequence to modify Carl Stokes . To specify multiple opening modifiers to the same subject, either combine the modif...
- by rveeraga
Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:20 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: opening present participle modifier concept to Experts
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2581
In commercial garment construction, one advantage of serging over single-needle sewing is that the seam allowance is overcast as the seam is sewn instead of a separate process requiring deeper seam allowances. 1)instead of ( a clause is compared with a noun ; the seam is sewn is not parallel with a ...
- by rveeraga
Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:20 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Source: Kaplan free prac. test
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1176
also, in the answer choice A, the is missing before New York’s World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. the is necessary because twin towers are unique.
- by rveeraga
Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:25 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Grockit - Modifier Question - Verb-ing Again
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1964
In virtually all types of tissue in every animal species, dioxin induces the production of enzymes that are the organism's trying to metabolize, or render harmless. the chemical that is irritating it. (A) trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it (noun, attempt, is...
- by rveeraga
Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:23 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG12: Ques No 24 [parallelism]
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5387
Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has argued that many biological traits are not the products of natural selection , favored because they enhance reproduction or survival, but simply random by-products of other evolutionary developments . I am curious to know, why this sentence is not clear in meani...
- by rveeraga
Sun Jul 03, 2011 12:13 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Paleontologist Stephen Jay
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7834
To meet the author's prediction based on Agronomists's study, the hypothesis has to show casual relation between the histidine and the growth of herb in soil with metals that are toxic to other plants. Answer choices A, B, and C are irrelevant because they do not have necessary casual relation. But,...
- by rveeraga
Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:51 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Histadine
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5202
that can not always fit right next to the noun it modifies, especially if the modified noun has appending preposition, because not all noun + preposition phrases can be converted to possessives with the same meaning to place that next to the noun. In the answer choice A, we just can not write the o...
- by rveeraga
Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:57 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 700+ Sentence Correction
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4844
At first look, one may think that there could be several combination of multiples for .15 and .29 to result in 4.4. But, in Data Sufficiency, statements 1 and 2 do not contradict each other. So, by using the information in statement 2, not directly but indirectly, you can take it as only equal numbe...
- by rveeraga
Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:47 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Number of Stamps
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1765
In inequalities, distributing to minimum expression helps, especially in data sufficiency. Combining both statements, is 30+d2/30+r2 > d2/r2 ? (we know that the variables are positive) => is 30r2+d2r2 > 30d2+d2r2 ? => is r2 > d2 ? none of the statements give relation between r2 and d2. So, insuffici...
- by rveeraga
Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:46 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: speed/time
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1487
I think A is the best answer, although it has error. I would read the answer choice A as:
these hot sauces have a painrelieving effect like morphine's
or
they have a painrelieving effect like morphine's
- by rveeraga
Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:59 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Hot sauses
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5497
I think " convening, encouraging, and establishing " are illogical to be in parallelism for " the report urges ". It seems that " encouraging " is clearly functioning as an ING modifier to modify the previous clause. Now the question is, whether " to establish netw...
- by rveeraga
Sat May 21, 2011 8:55 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The report urges convening a White House
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4793
During her presidency of the short-lived Woman’s State Temperance Society (1852-1853), Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as she was a staunch advocate of liberalized divorce laws, scandalized many of her most ardent supporters in her suggestion that drunkenness should be made sufficient cause for divorce. A...
- by rveeraga
Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:20 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13043
In the year following an eight-cent increase in the federal
In the year following an eight-cent increase in the federal tax on a pack of cigarettes, sales of cigarettes fell ten percent. In contrast, in the year prior to the tax increase, sales had fallen one percent. The volume of cigarette sales is therefore strongly related to the after-tax price of a pac...
- by rveeraga
Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:49 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: In the year following an eight-cent increase in the federal
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4023
I think that one of the important reasons to use a semicolon between two independent clauses is to avoid subordinator or similar verbose, if they can stand on their own and the relation between them is obvious. So “the reason is that� in the option E may be considered redundant rather than wordy.
- by rveeraga
Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:14 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Comma Splice
- Replies: 49
- Views: 24933