Scientists have long searched for magnetic monopoles, hypothetical particles left over from the Big Bang. In 1982, a detector at Stanford recorded a single event that seemed to be the passage of a monopole. However, despite the fact that the Stanford experimental design has withstood all serious cha...

Ron, what is wrong with E. Is it meaning. I do realize that A is the best. However is a conjunction joining 'Aztec people also developed a written language' and 'it was more pictographic in nature' with 'not as highly sophisticated as the Maya's' as modifier to second clause. So nothing grammatical...

Could anyone please explain what's wrong with (C)? (C) The growth of the global economy since 1990 exceeds that which had been for 10,000 years from the beginning of agriculture 'Had been' seems to point to the time period from beginning of agriculture to 1950 whereas the next time period is from 19...

Unlike crested wheatgrass, an alien species from Siberia that forms only shallow roots and produces tall above-ground shoots, native North American grasses develop an extensive root system, allowing for greater enrichment of the soil, but do not grow to be very tall. Could someone please explain how...

[quote="RonPurewal"][quote="vietst"] - 'because of' is sketchy; it suggests indirect causation, while the clear meaning is that gravitational attraction was directly responsible Hi Ron, Thanks a lot for the wonderful explanation. Could you please explain how can I apply the conce...

choice b exhibits poor parallelism: having an eccentric personality is placed in parallel with skilful wax renderings... . choice e exhibits proper parallelism, in that both of the parallel items are noun phrases (the principal nouns being personality and renderings ). -- oh, and by the way, it's t...

I am finding " 2002 New Mexico" a bit awkward.Please help me understand the structure.
"(B) psychologists have historically been forbidden to prescribe drugs for their patients, but in 2002 New Mexico began granting prescribing privileges"

Thanks :)

Could someone help me to understand how the clause after "comma and" is an independent one.

(E) those of other college-educated professionals"”by an average of nearly $8,000 a year at the start of their
careers, and by almost $24,000

Could someone please explain the following: 1)the role of double dash in the correct option: "company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce "” more than 2,000 jobs "” and expected to report a" 2)Can we substitute commas for dashes? If yes then can someone please explain h...

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...

isn't the clause after and in option A independent? "..though her career was cut short when she was in her prime and the fifteen recordings she made were disappointing artistically as well as technically ,.." If yes then could someone please explain why it is not "comma and"? I a...

Hi Ron I was curious to know whether the clause after ';' needs another verb besides empathize? Is it because of 'that clause' that the independent clause needs a main verb?Could you please explain the concept of restrictive clauses in an independent clause.I generally confuse whether another verb i...

Ron

Could you please help me understand the construction of the right option here.

I thought all options with "comma having" are wrong.

I think I have not understood the concept you described herehttp://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/post39471.html#p39471

Please help

Is it true that "more likely" has to be followed by "to"? Thanks in advance. not necessarily. for instance, you could be talking about the probability of some event. in that case, you can just say that event x is likely , but event y is even more likely . or something along thos...

hey party people, we have a folder dedicated to GMATPREP problems. do not post GMATPREP problems anywhere but in that folder. i'll move this one; thanks. -- you should be EXTREMELY wary of choosing (c) on questions like this one. (c) is a "SUCKER ANSWER" : they hand you so much informatio...