Here is a question:
In Xena College, a rule has been passed that permits students to cook and serve their food, as well as to buy it.
A. Same
B. permits students to cook, serve, and to buy their food.
C. permits students to cook, to serve, and buy food.
D. will permit the student to cook, serve, as well as to buy food.
E. will permit food to be cooked, served, as well as bought by students.
My understanding is-
B is wrong because it should have been "to serve" as followed by to cook and comma.
C is wrong because it should have been "to buy food" as followed by "...to serve,(comma) and ..."
D is wordy and awkward- "will permit..." and it should have been "to serve".....
E is wordy and awkward- "will permit..." and passive "by students".
A is the best option as it starts with subject-verb agreement: "permits", also infinitives are parallel-
to cook (no comma) and serve their food, .....to buy...
Since, there is no comma after the to cook and followed by and it doesn't require "to" serve and is parallel.
I want to confirm whether my understanding is correct.
Also, one another doubt I have is-
But two infinitives + noun is NOT okay
Ex: He liked to sail, to swim and girls.
I feel this is correct but not sure why is it wrong. Please clarify.
Juz applyin POE
A: unnecessary wordy option since the 3 elements of the series can be expressed x,y and z, also "it" creates a PE
B: Best one
C: 'to buy' is missing
D: 'has been passed' doen't agree with 'will permit' in tense and also the error repeated from A
E: passive construction + error in D
Juz applyin POE
A: unnecessary wordy option since the 3 elements of the series can be expressed x,y and z, also "it" creates a PE
B: Best one
C: 'to buy' is missing
D: 'has been passed' doen't agree with 'will permit' in tense and also the error repeated from A
E: passive construction + error in D
OA is A ........................
Here is a question:
In Xena College, a rule has been passed that permits students to cook and serve their food, as well as to buy it.
A. Same
B. permits students to cook, serve, and to buy their food.
C. permits students to cook, to serve, and buy food.
D. will permit the student to cook, serve, as well as to buy food.
E. will permit food to be cooked, served, as well as bought by students.
My understanding is-
B is wrong because it should have been "to serve" as followed by to cook and comma.
C is wrong because it should have been "to buy food" as followed by "...to serve,(comma) and ..."
D is wordy and awkward- "will permit..." and it should have been "to serve".....
E is wordy and awkward- "will permit..." and passive "by students".
A is the best option as it starts with subject-verb agreement: "permits", also infinitives are parallel-
to cook (no comma) and serve their food, .....to buy...
Since, there is no comma after the to cook and followed by and it doesn't require "to" serve and is parallel.
I want to confirm whether my understanding is correct.
Also, one another doubt I have is-
But two infinitives + noun is NOT okay
Ex: He liked to sail, to swim and girls.
I feel this is correct but not sure why is it wrong. Please clarify.
according to me ur explanations is right,
two possible parallel constructions are as follows:both are correct
I like to play and to sleep
I like to play as well as to sleep.(option A is using this construction)
In option A:
to cook and serve their food is parallel to to buy
Hi, can anyone please try these questions and explain the answers:
Q. New high-combustion models of engines show the potential of being able to produce high horsepower and performance without the costly requirements of maintenance and consuming of special racing fuel by earlier high horsepower models.
A. requirements of maintenance and consuming of special racing fuel by earlier high horsepower models.
B. requirements by earlier high horsepower models of consuming of special racing fuel and maintenance.
C. requirements for consuming of special racing fuel and maintenance of earlier high horsepower models.
D. consumption of special racing fuel and maintenance that was required by earlier high horsepower models.
E. maintenance and consumption of special racing fuel that were required by earlier high horsepower models.
Q. Forced to cut back their stock, automobile dealers in the area have cut prices; their pick-up trucks have been priced to sell, and they are.
A. have been priced to sell, and they are.
B. are priced to sell, and they have.
C. are priced to sell, and they do.
D. are being priced to sell, and have.
E. had been priced to sell, and they have.
Q. In one of the most surprising victories in WWI, the newly formed Russian communist state was routed by the Polish General, Jozef Pilsudski, demanding that it should push back its borders east of Vilnius.
A. demanding that it should
B. demanding it to
C. and their demand to
D. who demanded that it
E. who demanded them to
My take
1)B
2)E
3)B
My answer is
1.E
2.C
3.B
pl. explain
(1)
A. requirements of maintenance and consuming of special racing fuel by earlier high horsepower models - no parallelism
B. requirements by earlier high horsepower models of consuming of special racing fuel and maintenance - wordy
C. requirements for consuming of special racing fuel and maintenance of earlier high horsepower models - I eliminated this for the beginning sentence "requirements for"
D. consumption of special racing fuel and maintenance that was required by earlier high horsepower models - using singular verb
E. maintenance and consumption of special racing fuel that were required by earlier high horsepower models - maintains parallelism and uses the correct verb "were"
2) The sentence is in present tense.
A. have been priced to sell, and they are - "have" is redundant
B. are priced to sell, and they have - rephrasing the sentence "are priced to sell, and they have sold"..no
C. are priced to sell, and they do. - rephrasing the sentence "are priced to sell, and they do sell" - correct
D. are being priced to sell, and have - same as B..also missing the pronoun "they" which is needed to refer back to the noun.
E. had been priced to sell, and they have - this changes the tense. makes it perfect past.
3)
Q. In one of the most surprising victories in WWI, the newly formed Russian communist state was routed by the Polish General, Jozef Pilsudski, demanding that it should push back its borders east of Vilnius.
A. demanding that it should (we are talking about the past in the sentence, also should is wordy)
B. demanding it to (we are talking about the past here)
C. and their demand to ( their is plural here.)
D. who demanded that it CORRECT
E. who demanded them to (them is incorrect, it should be "it")
3)C I A is singular, so options that use plural pronoun (D &E;) are ruled out.Option C :withholding disclosure to the public of the identities.the public is not placed properly.
Between A & B,I think A is correct . I prefer "enabling it.." over "for it..".
4)By installing electrical pumps is a modifier.It should modify farmer not engineer /houses.So only D fits in.
5) to sympathize with is the correct idiom.So this rules out A ,C & E.
If you plug in D in the sentence will be...
Sowell aregues that American coservatives have no valid grounds that they should sympathize with.
they has a proper antecedent(conservatives) but I think that is not required .So answer is B.
1)being a carbon copy of x as anyone ever had been.
"being a ",so done/did can't fit .option B maintains parallelism.
2)while is used to indicate to events occuring in same time frame.If is used for conditional statements.So D & E options are ruled out .
C is not worded properly.
Tough choice (b/w A & B) .I'll choose B . I'm not sure whats wrong with A .
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Guys Whats the correct answers, i havent seen any discussion after this post on these questions.
My Take is B,B,A,D,C
Please identify the correct sentences in this set with respect to grammar and usage:
a. Savages had sketched the fundamental role of passion
b. citing it as more constant more persistent and somehow more deserved cause of madness.
c. The distraction of our mind is the result of
d. our blind surrender of our desires
e. our incapacity to control or moderate our passions.
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PLease provide me the explanation,
I was running through some sample problem,when i find this.
Q. David tried a handful of deserts from the table,which ultimately gave him an upset stomach.
Solu. provided in Manhattan was.
David tried a handful of table`s desserts,which ultimately gave him an upset stomach.
as per rules on an inanimate object we cannot use possesive`s,so please explain me how here we are using table`s dessert.
how its going this way,please explain
thanks
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Please identify the correct sentences in this set with respect to grammar and usage:
a. Savages had sketched the fundamental role of passion
b. citing it as more constant more persistent and somehow more deserved cause of madness.
c. The distraction of our mind is the result of
d. our blind surrender of our desires
e. our incapacity to control or moderate our passions.
c is the only one that looks correct to me....whats ths OA?
sadz SaysHey guys... I m preparing for gmat in 2011.... Any idea where i can get the link to the sc1000 ebook?
Hi can some tell me which is the best book for verbal and Maths
sadz SaysHey guys... I m preparing for gmat in 2011.... Any idea where i can get the link to the sc1000 ebook?
Hi sadz,
The sc1000 is an unofficial version, with most of the questions from scoretop. And it does not have detailed explanations. I had a copy of it when I was preparing, but did not like it as a book without explanations is not so useful. I would recommend against it for 2 reasons - it is not legal questions and it has no explanations and many debatable OAs. If you still need it, you can google for it and find it somewhere in rapidshare etc.
Thanks,
Arun
1.Like the color-discriminating apparatus of the human eye, insects' eyes depend on recording and comparing light intensities in three regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
(A) insects' eyes depend on
(B) an insect eye depends on
(C) that of insects depend on the
(D) that of an insect's eye depends on
(E) that of an insect's is dependent on the
2.The computer software being designed for a project studying Native American access to higher education will not only meet the needs of that study, but also has the versatility and power of facilitating similar research endeavors.
(A) but also has the versatility and power of facilitating
(B) but also have the versatility and power to facilitate
(C) but it also has the versatility and power to facilitate
(D) and also have the versatility and power of facilitating
(E) and it also has such versatility and power that it can facilitate
3.Car owners who inflate their tires properly can substantially boost their vehicles' fuel efficiency, since the increase in car-road friction can waste up to five percent of car fuel by underinflation.
(A) Car owners who inflate their tires properly can substantially boost their vehicles' fuel efficiency, since the increase in car-road friction can waste up to five percent of car fuel by underinflation.
(B) Because the underinflation of tires can waste up to five percent of a car's fuel by increasing car-road friction, car owners can substantially boost their vehicles' fuel efficiency by properly inflating the tires.
(C) Their vehicles' fuel efficiency is substantially boosted by car owners through the proper inflation of tires that, when underinflated, can waste up to five percent of car fuel by an increase in car-road friction.
(D) The proper inflation of tires by car owners, due to the fact that underinflation can waste up to five percent of a car's fuel by the increase of car-road friction, can substantially boost their fuel efficiency.
(E) Because up to five percent of a car's fuel are wasted through the increases in car-road friction when the tires are underinflated, car owners properly inflating tires can substantially boost their fuel efficiency.
1-D Misplaced modifer. Comparing the color-discriminating apparatus with insect eye and insect
2-B meet indicates it is plural noun, needs refers to study which is singular
A-Singular verb has
C-Adds it addional pronoun not required
D- modifies the indiom not only- but also
E- modifies the indiom not only- but also
3-A active is preferred over passive
B- passsive
C- passive
D- looks like MM
E- passive
Please correct me if I'm wrong....
Hi Shawn....The answer for :The computer software being designed for a project studying Native American access to higher education will not only meet the needs of that study, but also has the versatility and power of facilitating similar research endeavors
should be option (A).
The "has" is the verb for computer software which is singular.
Your claim for considering "meet" as the indicator here is not right because, singular verb form is always used after will/will not.
Example: Ram will not meet Ravi today.
OA are
1.D
2.B ,use of base form of verb with future tense (The comp. s/w ..will not only meet,but (will) also have....)
3.B,wonder why?
I have a doubt here..is "Software" a collective noun?