I will have to go with the smokinskull86 dude on this one. In the sentence "since detecting thermal currents are impossible using normal human motion sensitivity". How can "detecting" be an adjective? I found a simple rule for checking if its an adjective; check this out.
"detecting" is definitely a verb here. And in layman's language it specifies an activity.
Adjective is something which qualify or modify a noun or pronoun. Verb is detect and not detecting, it is a participle which can serve two purpose acting as an adjective as well as verb. After noticing one more time B is also looking as nice option as detecting is acting as Gerund ( noun) here which is a Verb+ ing form and not as adjective. Apology for my previous post where I refer it as an adjective.
@ Education Aisle, Kindly put your insight to this question.!
kindly post the OA and the source of this question. I myself have some serious doubts about this question.
Adjective is something which qualify or modify a noun or pronoun. Verb is detect and not detect+ ing, it is a participle which can serve two purpose acting as an adjective as well as verb. After noticing one more time B is also looking as nice option.
kindly post the OA and the source of this question. I myself have some serious doubts about this question.
What I mean to clarify is a "participle" is also a verb in this case "detecting" is a present participle. Implies that "detecting" still remains a verb. The question is "is it describing thermal currents?" as you suggested. My answer would be no. "detecting thermal currents" is just a specific activity the author wants us to know about. If it was "fast thermal currents" or "energetic thermal currents" I would agree that 'fast' & 'energetic' are adjectives here.
Here are the examples- Verb SimplePresent Simple Past Past Participle Present Participle Infinitive --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- giggle giggle(s) giggled giggled giggling to giggle --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Participles as AdjectivesPast and present participles often function as adjectives that describe nouns. Here are some examples:
The crying baby drew a long breath and sucked in a spider crouching in the corner of the crib.
Which baby? The crying baby. Which spider? The one that was crouching in the corner.
The mangled pair of sunglasses, bruised face, broken arm, and bleeding knees meant Genette had taken another spill on her mountain bike.
Which pair of sunglasses? The mangled pair. Which face? The bruised one. Which arm? The broken one. Which knees? The bleeding ones.
What I mean to clarify is a "participle" is also a verb in this case "detecting" is a present participle. Implies that "detecting" still remains a verb. The question is "is it describing thermal currents?" as you suggested. My answer would be no. "detecting thermal currents" is just a specific activity the author wants us to know about. If it was "fast thermal currents" or "energetic thermal currents" I would agree that 'fast' & 'energetic' are adjectives here.
Here are the examples- Verb SimplePresent Simple Past Past Participle Present Participle Infinitive --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- giggle giggle(s) giggled giggled giggling to giggle --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Participles as AdjectivesPast and present participles often function as adjectives that describe nouns. Here are some examples:
The crying baby drew a long breath and sucked in a spider crouching in the corner of the crib.
Which baby? The crying baby. Which spider? The one that was crouching in the corner.
The mangled pair of sunglasses, bruised face, broken arm, and bleeding knees meant Genette had taken another spill on her mountain bike.
Which pair of sunglasses? The mangled pair. Which face? The bruised one. Which arm? The broken one. Which knees? The bleeding ones.
i forgot 2 post the solution.. k.. m lying.. was lazy to post the explanation of 12 questions at a time.. became lazier after seeing mission-bro already posting his explanations.. well can i post it 2morrow morning?? i have 2 resolve the questions 4m the beginning..
1 request to all of u guys.. plz do participate in RC thread as well..
Hi Dare2,
A gentle reminder. I think u r yet to post ur explanation 😃
Try this one: Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the worlds social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of femalesthe queen and her sterile female workers.
A. wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of B. wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of C. which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all D. which means that their society is highly cooperative, organized, and it is almost entirely E. living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities. (A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities (B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities (C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities (D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities (E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included
2) Contrary to popular opinion, the movement toward a service economy is leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, ordisplacing the physical production of goods. (A) leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or (B) leading neither to lower standards of living nor a more unequal distribution of income, or (C) not leading to either lower standards of living nor to more of an unequal distribution of income, and neither is it (D) not leading to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, and it is not (E) not leading to lower standards of living or to a more unequal distribution of income, nor is it
2) Contrary to popular opinion, the movement toward a service economy is leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, ordisplacing the physical production of goods.
(A) leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or (B) leading neither to lower standards of living nor a more unequal distribution of income, or (C) not leading to either lower standards of living nor to more of an unequal distribution of income, and neither is it (D) not leading to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, and it is not (E) not leading to lower standards of living or to a more unequal distribution of income, nor is it
I need help!! Which option is parallel?
option E looks the best choice here..
@mission plz confirm the OA.. i'll then post my explanation for choosing E.
@vpitc apologies 4 da delay buddy.. no more laziness 4m now on..
1.The data collected by weather airplanes that fly into the heart of a hurricane are useful mainly for gauging the storm's structure and strength, not for the speed and the path of their movement. (A) not for the speed and the path of their movement (B) not for the speed and path of its movement (C) not the speed and path of its movement (D) and not the speed and path of their movements (E) and not for the speed and the path of its movements
A,D. their referring hurricane is wrong B. not for gauging the speed and path of its movement would have made it parallel. but it is not so.. hence B is not parallel. paraphrase the sentence 4 better understanding.. C. perfect. E. not parallel with gauging.. (same as B)
2.The Forbidden City in Beijing, from which the emperors ruled by heavenly mandate, was a site which a commoner or foreigner could not enter without anypermission, on pain of death.
(A) which a commoner or foreigner could not enter without any permission, (B) which a commoner or foreigner could enter without any permission only (C) which no commoner or foreigner could enter without permission, (D) which, without permission, neither commoner or foreigner could only enter, (E) which, to enter without permission, neither commoner or foreigner could do,
C-short, sweet, concise and perfect..
3.Students in the early 1960s were taught that electrons orbit the nucleus of an atom and the path of this orbit was circular.
a) the path of this orbit was b) the path of this orbit is c) the path of this orbit has been d) that the path of this orbit is e) that the path of this orbit was
A,B,C. 'were taught the path of this orbit' is wrong E 'was' is wrong.. it still does.. D perffect.
4. Lincoln, discovering in young manhood the secret that the Yankee peddler has learned before him, knew how to use a good story to generate good will. (A) Lincoln, discovering in young manhood the secret that the Yankee peddler has learned before him, knew (B) Discovering in young manhood the secret that the Yankee peddler has learned before him, Lincoln knew (C) Lincoln, discovering the secret that the Yankee peddler had learned in young manhood before him, knew (D) In young manhood Lincoln discovered the secret that the Yankee peddler had learned before him; (E) Lincoln, discovered in young manhood the secret that the Yankee peddler had learned before him, knew
B - perfectly placed modifer.. rest all r awkward..
rest all nothing much different 4m wat mission-bro has already explained..
@mission plz confirm the OA.. i'll then post my explanation for choosing E.
@dare2, u r on ur way to excellence. OAs are D and E. I put 1st question for practice and 2nd one for my doubt. How is E a better choice? i havent seen such usage of "nor". please explain.
@dare2, u r on ur way to excellence. OAs are D and E. I put 1st question for practice and 2nd one for my doubt. How is E a better choice? i havent seen such usage of "nor". please explain.
again it is only a grammar rule.. not... nor.. is accepted but neither.. or is not accepted.. neither always has to go with nor
i think this was ur only doubt.. y i eliminated other choices is very obvious..
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A - weird construction B - not parallel C - not parallel E - not parallel
We can eliminate C & E because of another rule.
"Preposition + Noun + Participle" is almost always wrong on GMAT
"with child-care facilities included" - C&E;
2) Contrary to popular opinion, the movement toward a service economy is leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, ordisplacing the physical production of goods.
(A) leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or (B) leading neither to lower standards of living nor a more unequal distribution of income, or (C) not leading to either lower standards of living nor to more of an unequal distribution of income, and neither is it (D) not leading to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, and it is not (E) not leading to lower standards of living or to a more unequal distribution of income, nor is it
I need help!! Which option is parallel?
2) Contrary to popular opinion, the movement toward a service economy is leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or displacing the physical production of goods. (A) leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or (B) leading neither to lower standards of living nor a more unequal distribution of income, or (C) not leading to either lower standards of living nor to more of an unequal distribution of income, and neither is it (D) not leading to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, and it is not (E) not leading to lower standards of living or to a more unequal distribution of income, nor is it
My take - E
A - not parallel. leading neither to ....more of an....or... (should be neither X nor Y)- ELIMINATED B - not parallel. leading neither to....nor a (should be neither to X not to Y)- ELIMINATED C - not parallel . ...not leading to either ... nor ...(should be either X or Y...) ELIMINATED D- changes the original meaning. ELIMINATED E - correct. "not leading to X or Y, nor is it...)
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All the best for aping and yeah post your experience also about taking the GMAT !
The Parthenon is larger than usual for a Doric temple, with eight columns on the short sides and seventeen on the long ones rather than the typical six and thirteen.
The Parthenon is larger than usual for a Doric temple, with eight columns on the short sides and seventeen on the long ones rather than the typical six and thirteen.
(A) usual
(B) is usual
(C) has been usual
(D) one usually is
(E) it is usual
Comparison is between the Pantheon with another Pantheon of the same temple use - is usual
