jkaustubh wrote:
I don't think this is a 700 level question.
1950 is only mentioned in A and not in other options. There insufficient comparison in choices B, C, D and E.
Dear
jkaustubh,
Yes, I agree, it's not the most difficult question. I believe
Dhairya275, who posted the question saying, "
No Clue !! Help", simply took a guess because the system requires one to specify such things when one posts a questions.
Don't automatically assume that the difficulty level for a question posted on GC is rigorously accurate ----- especially when a user who doesn't understand the question posts it for help, that user's estimation of the difficulty level is probably not going to be the most representative. Theoretically, when experts such as myself post our own questions, we will have a slightly better guess of the difficulty level, although to be honest, when I write a question, it's very hard for me to judge how difficult others will find it, because it's easy for me!
Also, thanks for pointing out that "
in 1950" irregularity. Good catch. Once you pointed that out, it made me curious. I check the question on a couple other websites ---- it turns out, the underlined part is NOT the whole sentence. The final prepositional phrase, "
in 1950", is the only non-underlined part and should not have been included in choice
(A). I edited the question to reflect this. Again, when someone is just beginning their GMAT studies, confused about the question, confused about GC, etc., and that person posts a question, don't automatically assume the question is in its pure and pristine form. Critical thinking, my friend --- that might be the #1 skill the GMAT is testing, and certainly the #! kind of intelligence that will lead to success in the business world.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
jkaustubh wrote:
Can you help me prepositional phrases and idioms. I am not good with these.
Thank you
Dear
jkaustubh,
I'm happy to help with this.
First of all, on the issue of idioms --- how different prepositions are used in different situations, here's a free idiom e-book:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-idiom-ebook/Of course, the basic structure of a preposition phrase is relatively easy ---
[preposition] + [object].
Caveats:
(a) the "object" is either a noun or something behaving as a noun
(b) that noun may have modifiers, including entire modifying phrases & clauses
(c) the object of a preposition must be in
objective form --- in English, there's no difference in nouns between subjective & objective form, but it makes a different for personal pronouns, which must be in their objective form {
me, you, her, him, it, them}.
(d) other objects that can act as nouns and be objects of prepositions are (1)
gerunds, and (2)
substantive clauses (a.k.a. noun clauses); see:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-gramm ... d-phrases/https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/substantiv ... -the-gmat/Prepositional phrases themselves are modifiers, and they are very flexible as modifiers. They act on two broad ways:
1) as
an adjectival phrase --- that is, a noun-modifier, like an adjective
2) as
an adverbial phrase --- like an adverb, modifying a verb, and adjective, or an adverb
see:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-gramm ... d-clauses/https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-gramm ... d-clauses/Does all this make sense?
Mike
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