I think B is correct.
In C, signal a connection sounds like the modem is signalling to connection. Besides, "it" goes dangling if you take a closer look.
Open to comments...
1. "it" can as well refer to modem. Therefore I find it dangling.
2. In the example you gave: signal here is a noun has a verb "shows". But in the problem, signal is a verb. I don't the analogy.
BTW, now I am very eager to know the oa :)
1) it refers to connection
2) "signal a connection": means that it indicates whether a connection is present.
Check this:
Cross the road when the traffic signal shows a green light?
Does that mean that the traffic signal signals to a green light?
According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice---Absurd sentence formation.
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing--Unidiomatic.
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing---Correct usage of idioms and clear parallelism. Correct
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice---weird
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice ----too much wordy.
Question.According to some analysts, whatever its merits, the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.
(A) its merits, the proposal to tax
(B) its merits may be, the proposal of taxing
(C) its merits as a proposal, taxing
(D) the proposal's merits, to tax
(E) the proposal's merits are, taxing
I pick A.
Here, the proposal if enacted will have a disastrous effect. To that end, proposal to tax sounds more appropriate than proposal of taxing.
D maintains this but fails to retain the relationship of proposal with tax.
Question.According to some analysts, whatever its merits, the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.
(A) its merits, the proposal to tax
(B) its merits may be, the proposal of taxing
(C) its merits as a proposal, taxing
(D) the proposals merits, to tax
(E) the proposals merits are, taxing
Apologies for the delay in post..
Any cable modem will occasionally fail to signal that there is a connection when it is present and mark that there is one when there is not.
A. that there is a connection when it is present and mark that there is one.
B. when a connection is present and mark that there is one.
C. a connection when it is present and mark that there is one.
D. the presence of a connection when it is there and mark its presence.
OA is C
According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
looks good.
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
wrong : on practicing is wrong usage.
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
wrong : on practicing is wrong usage.
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
wroing : wordy .. alters meaning
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice
wrong : wordy.... unidiomatic
Question: A large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950 have gone to university-press books.
(A) A large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950 have gone to university-press books.-modifier too far
(B) A large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, university-press books have won 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950.--Correct as modifier is near the subject ,t is modifying.
(C) Increasingly influential as a large sector of publishing, 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950 have gone to university-press books.--modifier is too far placed.
(D) Since 1950, a large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards have gone to university-press books.--awkward sentence formation
(E) Since 1950, university-press books, a large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, won 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards from then on.--unclear whether a large inc infl sector of pub. and univ-press books are same.
Question.According to some analysts, whatever its merits, the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.
(A) its merits, the proposal to tax
(B) its merits may be, the proposal of taxing
(C) its merits as a proposal, taxing
(D) the proposals merits, to tax
(E) the proposals merits are, taxing
Question.According to some analysts, whatever its merits, the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.
(A) its merits, the proposal to tax--its (refers back to proposal).correct usage.
(B) its merits may be, the proposal of taxing--awkward sentence construction
(C) its merits as a proposal, taxing--merits as a proposal completely changes the meaning
(D) the proposals merits, to tax-wrong sentence--something's x used basically in caseof any person/thing
(E) the proposals merits are, taxing--similarly proposal's merits is wrong usage here
OA is C.I thought B was correct
ans in red.
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Good one!
Confused but will go with B. Though had "have" not been there in E, I would have picked E for sure.
I think we are talking about 2 events, both in the past. There is no indication that the latter part of 3 months is continued into the present.
Based on this, please find the explanation embedded in the post above.
Did I commit a blunder?
Question.In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the companys earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.
(A) by using the companys earnings and to profit
(B) by using the companies earnings and by profiting
(C) using the companies earnings and profiting
(D) with the companys earnings, profiting
(E) with the companies earnings and to profit
Puys pls help me in this question.
The OA is A and not B.
Rest of the options can be easily eliminated.
Please share your explanations so as to why option B is incorrect.
Literary critics have often said that all of the thousands of stories written by the world's authors are essentially variations of six basic plot themes.
A. that all of the thousands of stories written by the world's authors are essentially variations of
B. that the world's authors have written thousands of stories which are essentially variations of
My explanation in support of option B is mentioned below:-
1-Pronoun 'which' clearly refers to "thousands of stories".
2-Stories consist of the variation of themes so it has to be mentioned near plot themes.
Please indicate the flaw in my reasoning along with your viewpoint.
Puys pls help me in this question.
The OA is A and not B.
Rest of the options can be easily eliminated.
Please share your explanations so as to why option B is incorrect.
Literary critics have often said that all of the thousand of stories written by the worlds authors are essentially variations of six basic plot themes.
A. that all of the thousand of stories written by the worlds authors are essentially variations of
B. that the worlds authors have written thousands of stories which are essentially variations of
My explanation in support of option B is mentioned below:-
1-Pronoun 'which' clearly refers to "thousands of stories".
2-Stories consist of the variation of themes so it has to be mentioned near plot themes.
Please indicate the flaw in my reasoning along with your viewpoint.
Puys pls help me in this question.
The OA is A and not B.
Rest of the options can be easily eliminated.
Please share your explanations so as to why option B is incorrect.
Literary critics have often said that all of the thousand of stories written by the worlds authors are essentially variations of six basic plot themes.
A. that all of the thousand of stories written by the worlds authors are essentially variations of
B. that the worlds authors have written thousands of stories which are essentially variations of
My explanation in support of option B is mentioned below:-
1-Pronoun 'which' clearly refers to "thousands of stories".
2-Stories consist of the variation of themes so it has to be mentioned near plot themes.
Please indicate the flaw in my reasoning along with your viewpoint.
I think the sentence demands to keep stories as the subject and not the author.
(A) keeps thousand of stories as the subject, and tells us that the critics emphasize on the stories, which are variations of some plots.
(B) subject here is world's authors, and it looks like the sentence says "critics have often said that the worlds' authors have written thousand of stories" ... now this sentence doesn't contain the "which" part, and this is intentional to explain.
As Manhattan SC says, "which" part in sentences is optional, and the sentence still remains clear without the "which". So if we remove "which" from the second, the sentence holds no water!
In contrast with B, A uses "that" which is not optional and has to be used.
PS: I wonder I would've thought so much when attempting the question for the first time
Hi Vyom ,
I think the description by perl is absolute in itself. Also the example by you is bingo too. The answer should be A
OA is C.I thought B was correct
Originally Posted by docsmile View Post
According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
looks good.
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
wrong : on practicing is wrong usage.
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
wrong : on practicing is wrong usage.
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
wroing : wordy .. alters meaning
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice
wrong : wordy.... unidiomatic
Puys pls help me in this question.
The OA is A and not B.
Rest of the options can be easily eliminated.
Please share your explanations so as to why option B is incorrect.
Literary critics have often said that all of the thousand of stories written by the world's authors are essentially variations of six basic plot themes.
A. that all of the thousand of stories written by the world's authors are essentially variations of
B. that the world's authors have written thousands of stories which are essentially variations of
My explanation in support of option B is mentioned below:-
1-Pronoun 'which' clearly refers to "thousands of stories".
2-Stories consist of the variation of themes so it has to be mentioned near plot themes.
Please indicate the flaw in my reasoning along with your viewpoint.