Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Nov 2007:30 AM PST
-08:30 AM PST
Learn what truly sets the UC Riverside MBA apart and how it helps in your professional growth
Nov 2211:00 AM IST
-01:00 PM IST
Do RC/MSR passages scare you? e-GMAT is conducting a masterclass to help you learn – Learn effective reading strategies Tackle difficult RC & MSR with confidence Excel in timed test environment- Nov 23
11:00 AM IST
-01:00 PM IST
Attend this free GMAT Algebra Webinar and learn how to master the most challenging Inequalities and Absolute Value problems with ease. 
Nov 2510:00 AM EST
-11:00 AM EST
Prefer video-based learning? The Target Test Prep OnDemand course is a one-of-a-kind video masterclass featuring 400 hours of lecture-style teaching by Scott Woodbury-Stewart, founder of Target Test Prep and one of the most accomplished GMAT instructors.
01 Oct 2020, 11:35
Kudos
Bookmarks
I can't find whether a sentence has a verb, which material would you recommend me?
Hey GMATNinja
Could you vet the following excerpt from the NewYorkTimes?
What is preceding noun of pronoun THOSE, policies ?
Does parallelism in the last part is germane? (IN renewable energy and infrastructure , free community college,)
The policies she did embrace mostly came from the center-left Obama playbook: preserving and extending Obamacare, protecting those with pre-existing conditions, investing in renewable energy and infrastructure, free community college, preserving tax cuts for anybody making less than $400,000 a year.
Thanks beforehand.
Could you vet the following excerpt from the NewYorkTimes?
What is preceding noun of pronoun THOSE, policies ?
Does parallelism in the last part is germane? (IN renewable energy and infrastructure , free community college,)
The policies she did embrace mostly came from the center-left Obama playbook: preserving and extending Obamacare, protecting those with pre-existing conditions, investing in renewable energy and infrastructure, free community college, preserving tax cuts for anybody making less than $400,000 a year.
Thanks beforehand.
10 Oct 2020, 09:33
Kudos
Bookmarks
Mizar18
Interesting question! I'd be very careful about using the phrase, "always incorrect." There's a lot of subtlety in SC, and it's important to make a distinction between constructions that are definitively wrong, such as subject-verb disagreement, and constructions that are often problematic.
This issue falls into the latter the category. If you see a definitive error, you can eliminate the answer choice without considering anything else. If you see a construction that's merely problematic, you cannot turn off your brain. You need to consider context and determine why a certain sentence might be less than ideal.
Your example is a good case in point:
- I agree to give them part of the territory because I think this is fair.
Is "this" a grammatical error? That's debatable. More important: "this" definitely a problem here, because it creates a confusing meaning. Is "this" referring to the territory? Well, that wouldn't make sense. How could a territory be fair? If we read it a few times, we can see that "this" seems to be trying to refer to "to give," but it's not clear how the word "this" can refer back to "to give". I can write about this day or this icepick, but this "to give," doesn't work.
So then maybe there's an implied agreement that "this" can modify? That would make sense, I suppose. But first, it's a problem that the word "agreement" doesn't show up in the sentence, and second, that's an awful lot of work to do to arrive at a reasonable interpretation.
This is all to say that if you were evaluating the above construction, you'd want to acknowledge that it creates a confusing sentence and then look to see if you can find an alternative that's clearer. If you can, great: it's out. If you can't, well, then you'd better start thinking about other issues.
The takeaway: SC doesn't occur in a vacuum, and many of the decision points we encounter are not black and white. It's true that certain constructions are rarely preferred because they cause meaning or clarity problems, but you never want to give yourself license to turn off your analytical brain. Context and logic always matter.
I hope that helps!
