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collective noun, such as a group of somethingS, is singular by default. but it can take plural verb if the meaning is condidered plural. gmat will not test us this point. just remember that collective noun can take either plural or singular verb . when we can choose, take singular form, other things...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:07 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A South American bird
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Among the largest of the flying squirrels is the Japanese giant flying squirrel , measuring two feet from the top of its head to the tip of its tail, with a wingspan of more than a foot and a half , and it weights up to five pounds. a.measuring two feet from the top of its head to the tip of its ta...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:43 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Among the largest of the flying squirrels is the Japanese gi
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an important thing to remember is that in passive clause, "to do" do not refer to the subject of the clause this pen is used to write on the white board . in this sentence, somebody write. the pen dose not write. this thing is burried to keep it from stealing somebody keep it from stealing...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:21 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Archaeologists in Ireland believe that
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In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor. (A) in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics (B) in part for the acquisiti...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:54 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG Verbal 1 - SC #22
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if you see to do/doing, give them tense of agents, who perform their actions. in d, to do refer to hand sanitizer. this meaning is most logic. in c and b, to do refer to concentration. this is not intended meaning for the killing refer to no noun in the sentence. this means hand sanitizer dose not d...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:31 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: According to a recent study, hand sanitizers require a 60 pe
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if we see doing/to do, you have to give it tense and agent crossing and going take "have been. this mean have crossed repeatedly transport which have going ...in 1950 repeatedly require simple tense. which is used for repeated action in 1950 requires past simple, not present perfect. choice e i...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:04 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The possible long-term health risks to airline personnel who
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if you want to use "nor", you need "neither " or a negative clause I learn neith Russian or chinese I do not learn russian, nor do I go out tonight. if we use "or", the element after "or" is under the same rule as the element before "or". I do not le...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:33 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: with, without, nor, or... Hope experts can explain..
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there are many pattern for noun modifier. noun modifier can do its job in many idioms time required to assemble time of assembling time for assembling all of these are correct, I think. so, we have to remember that noun modifier can appear in many idioms. knowing this point help us not focus on the ...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:55 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Conveyor Belt
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when we use to do/doing in writing a sentence, give them tense and agent, who perform to do/doing. to do/doing can refer to no specific noun/agent in the sentence to a general persons.
when we read to do/doing , give them tense and agents. this process is the skill to solve sc with to do/doing
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:32 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Neuroscientists
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According to a recent study of consumer spending on prescription medications, increases in the sales of the 50 drugs that were advertised most heavily accounts for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of which came from sales of the 9,850 prescription ...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:02 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Prescription medications
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"and" is never easy on gmat . when we see "and" we have to prove that 2 ideas are paralel logically. this job requires meaning analysis and, so, is hard. honestly, I jump into "that/and that" and spend a lot of time because it is hard to prove the parallelism between &q...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 1:15 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG2017 At the end of 2001, motion picture industry represent
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Making things even more difficult has been general market inactivity lately, if not paralysis, which has provided little in the way of pricing guidance. A) has been general market inactivity lately, if not paralysis, which has provided B) there is general market inactivity, if not paralysis, lately...
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 1:02 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Making things even more difficult
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what about the following. "that in..." is wong. because it is inferior or because it is wrong pls explained. thanks Most of the country’s biggest daily newspapers had lower circulation in the six months from October 1995 through March 1996 than a similar period a year earlier. (A) a simi...
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Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:11 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Prices at the producer level are only 1.3 percent higher now
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if we see "to do, doing, and sometimes do-ed", we need to do the following who/what in the sentence do the action of those verbal or those verbal refer to the action of any persons what is tense/time of those actions presented by verbal. normally they take the tense of the main action both...
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Fri Aug 16, 2019 6:08 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The results of the company's cost-cutting measures are
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Found only in the Western Hemisphere and surviving through extremes of climate, hummingbirds’ range extends from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, from sea-level rain forests to the edges of Andean snowfields and ice fields at altitudes of 15,000 feet. A) Found only in the Western Hemisphere and surviv...
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Fri Aug 16, 2019 1:34 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Found only in the Western Hemisphere (OG2016)
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