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It all depends on what you want to do in next 5 years from now. If you do think this is what you want in the next 5 years then go for it with full force, you know the answer of how to overcome this and fix it - Hardwork- No other substitute for success..Good luck w/t whatever you choose.
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:29 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: GMAT from 620 to 650 Really disappointed
- Replies: 6
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1. Had Feared/Feared/Was Feared/Were Fearing The only tense that works in this case is Past Perfect Tense, since past perfect tense relates to two events happening in the past and one precedes other. Then the earlier event gets a past perfect (HAD + PAST participle) and the later one gets a simple p...
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:11 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG11-SC45
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2200
"a household nuisance but a time-honored experimental subject " is an appositive (or simply defining something), modifying fruit fly. A,B,C are wrong because of dangling modifier (A important noun missing which is being defined). All these three choices lack a subject of who did the studyi...
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:52 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Is "Double Comma" under the Modifier rule?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5117
A: was excited (Passive voice) B: was exciting (past tense needed ) excited C: Got doubt D: Parallelism Issue (X and Y); for the production of electric power and predicted in the mid-1890's that E: Modifier error -->alternating current, excited with the prospects (Current is excited with ...) Apprec...
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:45 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Nikola Telsa!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5487
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:07 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: bad day...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4632
1. "able to" is the Idiom, not "able to be", so A, D out
2. In B, and C, expansion is paralleled to Shaped, wrong.
3. E takes care of 1 and 2; Expanded and Shaped. So E.
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Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:48 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: glass!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3668
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Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:40 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Per capita consumption!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1767
Can we use Present Perfect(has been), when the author is mentioning about a specific time in the past, viz., As of this morning? Appreciate if some one can explain..
- by madhukumar_v
Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:33 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: "None of my friends" is singular or plural?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 43114
1. "so as to" is always wrong, check OG 10.
2. so..that is correct Idiom, which leaves A,B
3. B has pronoun problem- "it", which can refer to tornado or hurricane- hence A.
- by madhukumar_v
Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:26 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC from Test Magic
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4039
1. Recommending that, leaves C,D,E
2. "they" in C can refer to states or biologists (Ambiguity)- Wrong
3. D - obvious being and their reference to either states or biologists.
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Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:23 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Cutting back!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5078
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Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:58 am- Forum: The Application Process
- Topic: McDonough 2011 Applicants
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2096
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Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:28 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Both X as well as Y!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7312
good expln above, adding to it the Idiom Both X and Y;
Choice E can be taken off based on that, since in E after "and" the is needed
- by madhukumar_v
Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:24 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Can i have your explanation please - Thanks Again
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1947
1. Modifier : merely (Adverb) cannot modify noun (three percent of the cell's DNA) mere (Adjective) can modify a noun (DNA) also "in a mere" is kind of Idiom 2. Subject: All of the information (ALL- SANAM - anything that comes after all is the subject), here information is the subject, its...
- by madhukumar_v
Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:13 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A Question from 1000 Gmat SC questions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1813
1. Idiom: Convinced that
2. Dont use "should" when subjunctive that is used..(Most of the times should is incorrect)
3. university, where (not which /that - where is used for place modifier; that/which - people things)
so D.
- by madhukumar_v
Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:06 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Assistance Required..
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1443