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pakasaip wrote: EducationAisle wrote: pakasaip wrote: is the choice D can also be presented in this form?
" isolated from contact with Europeans longer than Aleuts or Inuits of the North Pacific and northern Alaska were " Yes that's correct; in fact, this is quite a common pattern. so that I can swap the location of Subject and Verb anytime, right? thank you for your help Not always.... in most cases the swap would be very awkward and unacceptable, especially in a main clause starting with a subject. However such a swap may be acceptable in the following cases: 1. In a comparative dependent clause (e.g.: in the example above) 2. In a main clause when the clause starts with a prepositional phrase. (e.g. Beside the river lay a green field.)
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pakasaip wrote: so that I can swap the location of Subject and Verb anytime, right?
thank you for your help Not always.... in most cases the swap would be very awkward and unacceptable, especially in a main clause starting with a subject. However such a swap may be acceptable in the following cases: 1. In a comparative dependent clause (e.g.: in the example above) 2. In a main clause when the clause starts with a prepositional phrase. (e.g. Beside the river lay a green field.)[/quote] Thank you a lot ... this is so clear!
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I have shorted the options to C and D . The only reason i picked D is because . In GMAC grammar rules - as far as i know - Verb is preferred over noun.
So, IMO it must be D.
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Nightmare wrote Quote: I have shorted the options to C and D. The only reason I picked D is because. In GMAC, grammar rules - as far as I know - Verb is preferred over noun.
So, IMO it must be D. Nightmare has hit the bull's eye yet again... In GMAT, there is a rule known as 'VAN" meaning that first prefer the verb (V), then the adjective (A), and finally the noun (N). This is the rule that has decided in favor of D over C.
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A, B, and E - to end with longer than "were" .... Left with C and D - were in isolation in C is not a good choice, thus D is correct. The idiom isolated from is correctly used in this sentence. The comparison is clear and unambiguous.
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This will help you understand this type of question better. https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-far-elli ... 48973.html
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gmatbusters wrote: Hi GMATNinja, VeritasPrepKarishmaDon't you think, we should have "Aleuts or Inuits of the North Pacific FROM northern Alaska." in non underlined portion. There's definitely nothing wrong with using "of" to indicate somebody's geographic origins, especially if we're talking about an entire group of people (or animals, such as the sloths "of the Greater Antilles...") who are in a particular location. If we're being super-technical, "from" would arguably imply that you're no longer in that location, and have gone somewhere else. For the most part, there's no reason to say "I'm from Iowa" (stop laughing, Americans -- Iowa isn't that bad!) unless I'm either currently in a different location, or somebody in Iowa is giving me a funny look and asking me where I'm actually from, since I presumably don't look or sound like an Iowan. Much more importantly: it's an absolute non-issue in the question, since "from" isn't one of the options! So there's no reason to even think about it. And more broadly, I'm not sure how valuable it is to obsess over idioms. They're pretty arbitrary, and there are more than 25,000 of them in English. More on idioms here. I hope this helps!
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