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While / Whereas
Can someone introduce the usage of while and whereas? How to keep parallel (in meaning and in form)?
Thanks in advance!
- by Crystal W
Mon Jun 27, 2016 5:34 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: While / Whereas
- Replies: 3
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I have the same question. Can someone explain it more?CaptainM wrote:Could someone please explain why usage of present perfect "have" wrong in option (B).
Thanks in advance!
- by Crystal W
Sat Jun 25, 2016 1:47 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Acoma and Hopi
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9092
Thanks Guru but I have a doubt here- The underlined part, I presume, is an independent clause which is joined to the main independent clause "the health care....metropolitan area". My doubt is that if we will not include the 'it' then the second independent clause will be missing a subjec...
- by Crystal W
Fri Jun 24, 2016 10:24 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: After several years of rapid growth
- Replies: 34
- Views: 14271
Although people in France consume fatty foods at a rate comparable to the United States, their death rates from heart disease are far lower in France. A. people in France consume fatty foods at a rate comparable to the United States B. people in France and the United States consume fatty foods at a...
- by Crystal W
Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:59 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: People in France consume fatty food.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3713
Thank you for your reply! But I am a little confused about the tense you mentioned. I believe simple tense is good because the first part of the sentence describe s a fact and the second part use future tense because future tense can be used to express prediction. Am I correct? Also, according to y...
- by Crystal W
Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:33 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Unlike the short flights
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3475
18. Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than are fungi , in the form of carbon dioxide, and converting it to energy-rich sugars. (A) Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than are fungi, (B) Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than fungi (C) Plants are more efficient tha...
- by Crystal W
Thu Jun 23, 2016 11:49 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6845
Hi instructor, do you think the a market ranging has problem in Choice A and C? I think it is ok because this a noun appositiveand "a market" is the repeat noun. Am I correct?
Thanks in advance!
- by Crystal W
Thu Jun 23, 2016 7:07 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: publishing divisions
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17580
Hi instructor, can you explain more you mentioned about with modifier in choice B. In choice B, I guess it is still has problems even if I cancel either sufficient or enough . I believe with modifier can modifies first part in the sentence or second part after "with modifier". Am I correc...
- by Crystal W
Thu Jun 23, 2016 6:47 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Unlike the short flights
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3475
This question is from GMATPrep: The commission’s office of compliance, inspections, and investigations plans to intensify its scrutiny of stock analysts to investigate not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the ...
- by Crystal W
Thu Jun 23, 2016 5:51 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: commission’s office
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4633
Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which carried sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries , a permanently orbiting space station will have to generate its own electricity. A. the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which carried sufficient power in ...
- by Crystal W
Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:49 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Unlike the short flights
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3475
The commission’s office of compliance, inspections, and investigations plans to intensify its scrutiny of stock analysts to investigate not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when ...
- by Crystal W
Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:31 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: commission’s office
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4633
Also, I have another question. I believe the first sentence of the second paragraph is not the main sentence of the second paragraph. I believe the example and details discussion after For Example is only about use of certain waters prior to the United States' acquisition of sovereignty. Am I correc...
- by Crystal W
Mon Jun 20, 2016 7:24 pm- Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
- Topic: 2016 OG RC 59-65
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3355
2016 OG RC 59-65
In Winters v. United States (1908)， the Supreme Court held that the right to use waters flowing through or adjacent to the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation was reserved to American Indians by the treaty establishing the reservation. Although this treaty did not mention water rights， the Court ru...
- by Crystal W
Mon Jun 20, 2016 7:09 pm- Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
- Topic: 2016 OG RC 59-65
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3355
Noting that the Federal Reserve
Noting that the Federal Reserve had raised a key short-term interest rate against last month, analysts said that they expected orders for durable goods to decline soon because rising interest rates makes it more expensive to buy them on credit. (A) rising interest rates makes it more expensive to bu...
- by Crystal W
Mon Jun 20, 2016 1:04 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Noting that the Federal Reserve
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2147
I have two confused points about this question. First, Can you explain by which in choice D? If we do not use which-clause, which place this by should be in ? Second, How can I decide to use by doing or by + noun?
Thanks in advance!
- by Crystal W
Mon Jun 20, 2016 12:02 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: In her 26 years in the forests of Gombe
- Replies: 8
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