there's also a bigger problem with (c). if you have a construction such as X did Y and did Z (note the lack of a subject in front of "did Z") then X is automatically assumed to be the subject of BOTH "did Y" and "did Z". for instance: the cat ate the mouse and jumped u...

(d) "changes in working conditions' effects" is at best awkward and vague, and at worst ambiguous: the intended meaning is the effects of the changes , but this sentence seems to indicated the effects of the conditions themselves. in other words, a literal reading of this sentence seems t...

If you take out the modifier enclosed in commas, then choice C says... the Aztec people also developed a written language, but was not as highly sophisticated as that of the Maya We've got two big problems here. 1/ The second verb creates a nonsense comparison (between the Aztec people and the Maya...

Hi GMAT instructors,

I wonder that is "with" in C equals to the meaning of " because of/ as a result of "?

Hi GMAT instructors, I wonder that is "with" in C equals to the meaning of " because of/ as a result of "? Close. More accurately, it's "by means of..." or "using ___ as an instrument". This is the same thing as With just one punch, the boxer knocked out his ...

Why it is the effects that are being investigated but not the changes? Even after reading the whole sentence for several times I still don't understand why can't the changes be investigated? It makes sense. Using the context, think about what they experimenters did. "- They played around with work ...

Hi GMAT instructors,
I wonder in "B": is"...and also..." rebundant?

when you get questions like this, SIMPLICITY and DIRECT RELATIONSHIP TO THE MATERIAL OF THE PASSAGE are the keys. one especially powerful technique is to simplify the passage down to 1-2 sentences . here is one such simplification, for this passage: the government increased all the elderly people's...

When a new restaurant, Martin’s Cafe, opened in Riverville last year, many people predicted that business at the Wildflower Inn, Riverville’s only other restaurant, would suffer from the competition. Surprisingly, however, in the year since Martin’s Cafe opened, the average number of meals per nigh...

This would make no difference. Even with this extra premise, there's still no connection between the fortunes of the two restaurants. Remember, you're not looking for any random reason why the W.I. might be doing more business. You're specifically looking for a reason why the W.I. has been doing so...

"Below" means "the number (= income) is lower". So, poorer. More intense poverty. Even if that phrase is completely unfamiliar to you, you can deduce this interpretation from thinking about the context of choice D. If the meaning were "better off", then the situation c...

(d) gives no reason why the effect of the pension would be cancelled out. in fact, if (d) is true, then we would expect just the opposite: if more elderly runagians are in poverty than ever before, then the effect of the pension increase should be amplified (in terms of lifting them out of that pov...

same problem in choice (e), which implies that lake baikal itself is somehow "more than all the North American Great Lakes combined". that doesn't make sense. the above rule is completely rigid, too; it doesn't allow for the modifier to be used in any other way. Hi Ron, you mentioned &quo...

Hi GMAT instructors, I wonder can I reconstruct the original sentence of A to: The act of the Congress that...was approved April 24,1800, also established... I try to think in this way so that E is wrong because otherwise the sentence will be" The act made provision for...., was approved April ...

D uses Wrong preposition "With" hence A Cheers Hi GMAT instructors, So D is wrong because of the wrong preposition "with"? Is it because "with" can only be used such as: 1.with+N.+V-ed/ing; 2.with+N.+adj. In D, "with...to do" is problematic? What if D is revi...