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18 Apr 2019, 00:40
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Can somebody help me with the idiomatic usage of interact and interaction
INTERACT
RIGHT: These groups often INTERACT WITH ONE ANOTHER (or EACH OTHER).
WRONG: These groups often INTERACT AMONG ONE ANOTHER.
These groups often INTERACT WITH THEMSELVES.
INTERACTION
RIGHT: The INTERACTION OF two nuclei COLLIDING releases energy.
SUSPECT: The INTERACTION BETWEEN two nuclei COLLIDING releases energy.
WRONG: The INTERACTION WHERE two nuclei COLLIDE releases energy.
ccooley and generis and daagh
INTERACT
RIGHT: These groups often INTERACT WITH ONE ANOTHER (or EACH OTHER).
WRONG: These groups often INTERACT AMONG ONE ANOTHER.
These groups often INTERACT WITH THEMSELVES.
INTERACTION
RIGHT: The INTERACTION OF two nuclei COLLIDING releases energy.
SUSPECT: The INTERACTION BETWEEN two nuclei COLLIDING releases energy.
WRONG: The INTERACTION WHERE two nuclei COLLIDE releases energy.
ccooley and generis and daagh
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18 Apr 2019, 22:41
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aashishlandmark , I found what I think are
the official questions that underlie your material above.
You might have found them already.
No matter what, takeaway:
Memorize interact WITH and interaction OF
Interaction between X and Y is suspect.
Other prepositions are suspect or wrong.
And: interact is not reflexive. Interact is reciprocal. I define the terms below.
To interact means to communicate with or to respond to another,.
Interact suggests action that has effect on another and that is reciprocal.
Let's get rid of the easy-to-explain incorrect constructions first.
• INTERACTION WHERE - where must be an actual physical location
The INTERACTION WHERE two nuclei COLLIDE releases energy.
Interaction WHERE is wrong because an interaction is not a physical location,
and on the GMAT, where must refer to a location.
Better: The two nuclei collide; that interaction releases energy.
The place that they collide does not release the energy. The interaction does.
The collision/interaction is a process, not a place.
• groups INTERACT WITH THEMSELVES - interact is NOT reflexive
Interact does not permit reflexive action (action that comes from and returns to the doer).
Example of "reflexive" (and NOT used with interact):
He soothed himself with meditation. He is the doer and the recipient of the action.
Interact requires reciprocal (mutual and corresponding) action—an exchange between X and Y.
When he interacted with her at the party, he was glad that she laughed at his jokes.
I cannot interact with myself.
The verb interact requires someone and occasionally something else—in addition to me.
Similarly, members of a group cannot interact with their own selves individually.
Members cannot interact with themselves.
INTER in interact connotes between,
which in turn requires another person or thing: NOT the self.
Plus, a group as a whole would be itself (not themselves), as in:
The group named itself after an obscure Greek demigod.
A group cannot interact with ITSELF, either. (No reflexive action with this verb.)
The group is an IT, not a THEY or THEM.
Now, can a few groups interact with themselves?
(Ouch. That hurts my ears. I can't actually conceptualize what that means.)
No. Too much suggestion of reflexive action and it's not clear whether we're talking
about individual members or the group as a whole. Not okay.
Groups can interact with each other (two groups) or with one another (more than two groups).
• INTERACTION BETWEEN two things COLLIDING?
Or interaction between two people or things that are meeting or exchanging? Probably not.
SUSPECT: The INTERACTION BETWEEN two nuclei COLLIDING releases energy.
First, interaction already suggests "between." (The prefix inter means between.)
This construction borders on redundancy.
Second, think of interaction as MIXING. (Not mixture. Mixing.)
Correct: The mixing [interaction] OF ammonia and chlorine is a bad idea. (Just ask me.)
Wrong: The mixing [interaction] BETWEEN ammonia and chlorine is a bad idea.
Third, the two nuclei already interact. They collide.
This construction is suspect but not necessarily wrong.
Look for another basis upon which to eliminate that choice.
• INTERACT AMONG ONE ANOTHER
Suspect and ambiguous: These groups often INTERACT AMONG ONE ANOTHER.
Interact "among" is suspect.
The expression is ambiguous.
Does "among one another" mean that "individual members are talking WITH one another" or
"whole groups are talking WITH one another"?
Finally, I know of no better way to learn the idiom patterns
than to read correct and incorrect examples such as those in the official questions below.
Hope that analysis helps.
*Official questions that test interact or interaction include questions:
HERE, HERE, , HERE, and HERE.
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