Source GMAT prep question: Growing evidence that coastal erosion occurs continuously, not in just such calamitous bursts like hurricanes, has led scientists and planners to urge a stringent new approach to limiting development along the nation's shoreline. A. coastal erosion occurs continuously, not...

The idea of the sentence is to contrast "continuously" with "in calamitous bursts". "Just" modifies "in calamitous bursts". (It's the same as saying, e.g., continuously, not just intermittently .) The OA is B, but I chose A. 1. I understand that we can rule o...

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Ron, thank you very much! I really enjoy your wonderful explanations and learn a lot, not just in my thread, but also in other postings!

Hi Instructors! Having read the previous posts, I still have questions about A: Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns the Record Town and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed . 1. Could they refer to on...

New techniques in thermal-scanning photography, a process that records radiation from surface areas, d. make possible the study of the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river in greater detail than it ever was before . Hi Ron, "it" in D does not belong to those types "the only ...

1. you can't write "of + NOUN + VERBing" if the action of VERBing is the focus of the preposition. yes. this is mostly a problem for native english speakers, because that kind of usage is ubiquitous in spoken english. for non-native speakers, it's just a normal modifier rule that doesn't ...

second, the gmat is rather inconsistent on the issue of pronoun ambiguity, as i've noted in several places. see here, for instance: http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/post35595.html#p35595 ...so picking based on pronoun ambiguity is a VERY bad idea, unless you literally can't think of any other cr...

B. With a law passed in 1933 that makes it a crime [punishable by imprisonment] that a United States citizen hold E. Due to a law being passed in 1933 that makes it a crime [punishable by imprisonment] for a United States citizen to hold Hi Ron, are B and E also incorrect because of the tense of &qu...

As long as you can find a legitimate antecedent, just treat the pronoun as correct. Despite the "ante-", antecedents do not have to come before pronouns. Most often they do, but not always. Thanks, Ron! It's a question that has puzzled me for a while... I'll keep what you said in mind. Ha...

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When reading this SC, I thought that "punishable crime = the possession of gold in form of bullion or coin for a U.S. citizen" must not be something happening nowadays.Then I found "makes" suspicious...

I'd better not consider something outside the sentence...

Source: Prep Exam Pack1 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 tha...

Hi Ron, in Prep Exam Pack 1, answer choice E has been changed as follows: E. mountain yellow-legged frogs of the Sierra Nevada take three to four years to reach adulthood, with the result that they are As I see it, this construction is very similar to another prep SC: The honeybee’s stinger is heavi...