Guys need help on this one:
So-called Green taxes, which exact a price for the use of polluting or nonrenewable fuels, are having a postive effect on the environment and natural resource base of countries as varied as China, Netherlands, and Hungary.
a) as varied as
b)as varied as are
c)as varied as those of
d)that are as varied as
e)that are varied as are
Please provide the explanation along with your answer
Guys need help on this one:
So-called Green taxes, which exact a price for the use of polluting or nonrenewable fuels, are having a postive effect on the environment and natural resource base of countries as varied as China, Netherlands, and Hungary.
a) as varied as
b)as varied as are
c)as varied as those of
d)that are as varied as
e)that are varied as are
Please provide the explanation along with your answer
is it A?
I guess countries as varied as X, Y, and Z is the proper idiom , wht's OA?
Guys need help on this one:
So-called Green taxes, which exact a price for the use of polluting or nonrenewable fuels, are having a postive effect on the environment and natural resource base of countries as varied as China, Netherlands, and Hungary.
a) as varied as
b)as varied as are
c)as varied as those of
d)that are as varied as
e)that are varied as are
Please provide the explanation along with your answer
I will go with option C since it compares the resource base with those of China....
-Deepak.
According to me the answer should be 'C' because we need to follow parallelism i.e
'of countries' 'as varied as those of' China, Netherlans and Hungary. Option c is the best answer according to me.
I will go with option C since it compares the resource base with those of China....
-Deepak.
is it A?
I guess countries as varied as X, Y, and Z is the proper idiom , wht's OA?
Its option a..
And i agree with Deepak. The comparison seems to be between resources bases and not countries.
Dipak9412ji.. please explain
A good SC. I will post the OA after few discussions.
Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies-less than those killed by bee stings.
A. movies-less than those
B. movies-fewer than have been
C. movies, which is less than those
D. movies, a number lower than the people
E. movies, fewer than the ones
I will go with option A for the above SC
-Deepak.
Rule out A and C immediately...number is countable..so less than is wrong.
Rule out D, seven people and number can not be compared..
Now between B and E, we should consider the importance of the punctuations....
A dash is genrally used to provide extra emphasis to the part between the two dashes..
In this sentence, the author wants to emphasise the part "the man-eater of the movies" sarcastically...and hence a dash would win over the comma..
One more reason to rule out E would be that, the usage of fewer than the ones does not seem correct...fewer than the number would prove better..
Experts : Pls throw extra light on "fewer than ones"
While this might have been correct for this sentence, parallelism between have been in the two parts of the sentence cannot be considered a rule. It really depends upon the context of the sentence. For example, following would have been correct:
Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies-fewer than were killed by the 1995 earthquake.
The above sentence is correct, though you would not find have been killed and were killed parallel.
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Thanks,
Ashish
GMAT Faculty @ EducationAisle
GMAT - 99th Percentile, MBA - ISB
Yeah, I agree with you on this. when I read this SC for the first time I had difficulty choosing the right answer. Parallelism was the only thing I could use to choose B which is the correct answer.
I hope you will agree with me that this sentence can be corrected and can be presented in a better way, but out of the given choices B is the best.
Thanks Ashish.
Its option a..
And i agree with Deepak. The comparison seems to be between resources bases and not countries.
Dipak9412ji.. please explain
Hi Avik -- 2 things - either you agree with Deepak, who chose C as the correct answer or you agree with others who chose A as the correct answer
Anyways, I think this question is fairly straightforward.
We should eliminate option C because it does incorrect comparision. Secondly, it's too wordy. Similarly, we can eliminate B as well because of 'ARE' -- redundant.
A is concise. the best answer.
my mistake : "overlooked the difference between pronoun and possessive noun"
Hi guys,
Need help below- Question is frm aristotle
A group of students in an American village has been selected for testing a new lowcost electronic notepad being built around a new class of green, power-stingy
microchips that use a fraction of the electricity of current computer chips
A. has been selected for testing a new low-cost electronic notepad being built
around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of
the electricity of current computer chips
B. have been selected to test a new low-cost electronic notepad being built
around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of
the electricity used by current computer chips
C. has been selected to test a new low-cost electronic notepad to be built on a
new class of green microchips, which are also power-stingy and which use a
fraction of the electricity used by current computer chips
D. have been selected for testing a new low-cost electronic notepad being built
around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of
the electricity of current computer chips
E. has been selected to test a new low-cost electronic notepad being built
around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of
the electricity used by current computer chips
correct ans is E, not able to understand
there are two actions taking place in the above question:
1. selection of group of students
2. testing of blah blah
if no 1 is the action then subject is implicit then group cannot be the subject, pls explain
also how do we knw that which is the main action of the sentence.
Need help below- Question is frm aristotle
A group of students in an American village has been selected for testing a new lowcost electronic notepad being built around a new class of green, power-stingy
microchips that use a fraction of the electricity of current computer chips
A. has been selected for testing a new low-cost electronic notepad being built
around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of
the electricity of current computer chips
B. have been selected to test a new low-cost electronic notepad being built
around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of
the electricity used by current computer chips
C. has been selected to test a new low-cost electronic notepad to be built on a
new class of green microchips, which are also power-stingy and which use a
fraction of the electricity used by current computer chips
D. have been selected for testing a new low-cost electronic notepad being built
around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of
the electricity of current computer chips
E. has been selected to test a new low-cost electronic notepad being built
around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of
the electricity used by current computer chips
correct ans is E, not able to understand
there are two actions taking place in the above question:
1. selection of group of students
2. testing of blah blah
if no 1 is the action then subject is implicit then group cannot be the subject, pls explain
also how do we knw that which is the main action of the sentence.
Hi guys,
Need help below- Question is frm aristotle
A group of students in an American village has been selected for testing a new low-cost electronic notepad being built around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of the electricity of current computer chips
A. has been selected for testing a new low-cost electronic notepad being built around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of the electricity of current computer chips
B. have been selected to test a new low-cost electronic notepad being built around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of the electricity used by current computer chips
C. has been selected to test a new low-cost electronic notepad to be built on a new class of green microchips, which are also power-stingy and which use a fraction of the electricity used by current computer chips
D. have been selected for testing a new low-cost electronic notepad being built around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of the electricity of current computer chips
E. has been selected to test a new low-cost electronic notepad being built around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of the electricity used by current computer chips
correct ans is E, not able to understand
there are two actions taking place in the above question:
1. selection of group of students
2. testing of blah blah
if no 1 is the action then subject is implicit then group cannot be the subject, pls explain
also how do we knw that which is the main action of the sentence.
Hey -- (FORMATTED the question for better readability)
I'll explain each option -- for better understanding.
first of all we need to find the subject in the sentence. Here the subject is "GROUP" and NOT "STUDENTS". Now we know that our subject is SINGULAR, we should search for options which contain Singular VERB.
Using this rule only we can eliminate options B and D. We need 'HAS'.
Options left are A,C and E.
Option A is incorrect because it changes the meaning of the sentence.
The intended meaning is "power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of the electricity used by current computer chips" -- for example if the current computer chips use 10 units of power then the new chips will use a fraction of power, say 10% of power.
Option A changes this meaning to say "new chips will use the power from the current computer chips" -- ELIMINATE
option C says "notepad to be built" whereas the "notedpad is being built" - i.e. present continuous. - ELIMINATE
Only option E maintains the intended meaning and is grammatically correct as well. THIS is the CORRECT ANSWER 😃
thanks, that helps.
A group of students in an American village has been selected for testing a new low-cost electronic notepad being built around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of the electricity of current computer chips
A. has been selected for testing a new low-cost electronic notepad being built around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of the electricity of current computer chips
Puys,
Can we rule out Option (A) for one more Reason..
"To Test" is better than "for testing" in conveying the "purpose" of selection..
Is this a valid rule according to GMAT?
Regards,
Sabby
Hi,
Please help me out with this -
Although he had been ill while in childhood, John Doe was 102 years old when he died peacefully in his sleep.
A.while in childhood,
B.while being a child
C.while a child
D.at the time of being a child
E.as a child
What shud be the correct answer. It says E is the correct one.
To me, A seems to be the option as the sentence uses "had been" which needs a reference for time and "as a child" doesnt do that.
Hi,
Although he had been ill while in childhood, John Doe was 102 years old when he died peacefully in his sleep.
A.while in childhood,
B.while being a child
C.while a child
D.at the time of being a child
E.as a child
Answer is E.
A cannot be the right answer because "while in childhood" is not the correct expression.
It changes intent of the sentence.
Answer is E.
A cannot be the right answer because "while in childhood" is not the correct expression.
It changes intent of the sentence.
but dude if it is E,then it means, he was always ill in as a child until he attained teen age or adulthood or what ever it is. think as a real protagonisy, do u tell everyone that u eere ill as a child or do u tell them u were ill when in child hood? i think all the answer choices are wrong here
sudhirzulu Saysbut dude if it is E,then it means, he was always ill in as a child until he attained teen age or adulthood or what ever it is. think as a real protagonisy, do u tell everyone that u eere ill as a child or do u tell them u were ill when in child hood? i think all the answer choices are wrong here
Sudhir, The sentence in question clearly indicates prolonged illness during childhood.. hence the expression as a child is correct in this case.
Also, you never say u were ill when in childhood... childhood is a relative time-frame specific to you... hence the expression is incorrect.
Sudhir, The sentence in question clearly indicates prolonged illness during childhood.. hence the expression as a child is correct in this
thnx a ton!
Hi,
Please help me out with this -
Although he had been ill while in childhood, John Doe was 102 years old when he died peacefully in his sleep.
A.while in childhood,
B.while being a child
C.while a child
D.at the time of being a child
E.as a child
What shud be the correct answer. It says E is the correct one.
To me, A seems to be the option as the sentence uses "had been" which needs a reference for time and "as a child" doesnt do that.
I would go with option E
-Deepak
Guys help me with the following question-
According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business
Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge
tuition and fees of under $8,000 a year than those that charge over $16,000.
A. than those that charge
B. than are charging
C. than to charge
D. as charge
E. as those charging
Guys help me with the following question-
According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business
Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge
tuition and fees of under $8,000 a year than those that charge over $16,000.
A. than those that charge
B. than are charging
C. than to charge
D. as charge
E. as those charging
as many X as Y
X = many independent institutions charge tuition etc.
Y those charging .
i think its E