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by bonniewjx
Sat Mar 15, 2014 2:50 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Ridley turtle
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Re: Ridley turtle

RonPurewal Wrote:You're welcome.


hi Ron
Thanks to you, I understand the choice between" laws requiring" and" laws to require" quite well now. Yet I wonder that should not the option B be" requiring turtle-excluder devices BE on shrimp nets is protecting" ?
by bonniewjx
Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:11 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Ridley turtle
Replies: 44
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Re: Ridley turtle

Also"” Even if "that" were included, your version would change the meaning of the sentence. In this sentence, "requiring that devices be..." doesn't imply that all of the shrimp boats should have the devices (as implied by context). Instead, that wording would just mean, "H...
by bonniewjx
Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:28 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Explain the apparently surprising result - GPREP1
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Re: Explain the apparently surprising result - GPREP1

Is d wrong because it contradicts what stimulus says?
by bonniewjx
Wed Apr 23, 2014 10:45 pm
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Explain the apparently surprising result - GPREP1
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Re: Explain the apparently surprising result - GPREP1

jnelson0612 Wrote:
bonniewjx Wrote:Is d wrong because it contradicts what stimulus says?


Hi Bonnie,
I'm not sure what you mean by "stimulus". Do you mean the argument itself?


Yes
by bonniewjx
Fri May 02, 2014 6:08 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Replies: 31
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Re: Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

B. and producing enough energy on a commercial scale for electricity to be generated efficiently and to heat Can't "to heat" be parallel to "to be generate"? "...for electricity to heat homes" sounds OK to me..although I know B is wrong because it should be "to pro...
by bonniewjx
Sat May 03, 2014 2:29 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Most of the purported health benefits of tea
Replies: 42
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Re: Most of the purported health benefits of tea

E --- compounds ... and they (anything wrong with this structure?) yes, something is indeed wrong. at best , 'they' is an ambiguous pronoun that potentially refers either to 'antioxidants'/'compounds' or to 'health benefits'. at worst it refers to 'health benefits', the subject of the preceding sen...
by bonniewjx
Sat May 03, 2014 3:35 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion
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Re: In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion

I have a little silly question here..Maybe i don't grasp the grammar here..

can "those who" be followed by "VERBing" without any verb?
isn't "those who still harboring..."a run-on sentence?