mykrasovski
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Gmatprep998 can you please post the full sentence? The current version seems to be trimmed.
MikeScarn generis - FYI.
mykrasovski , only a period at the end was missing. I added the period.
Thanks for the heads up.
Posted from my mobile device generis The sentence employs a very unusual use of "as anything but". Usually, the phrase is followed by the adjective, e.g., "anything but new". Are there any similar questions out there? Thanks!
mykrasovski , what does "out there" mean?
Non-official GMAT prep books that contain SC questions?
Any kind of publication?
Official questions?
No, no official sentence that I have ever seen ends with the two words
anything but.
I am happy to stand corrected.
Have I seen non-GMAT sources use the phrase that way? Yep.
Using the phrase to end a sentence abruptly is more common than you might think.
The phrase is unusually emphatic.
You could try what I just did. Google these words in the manner that I did:
"anything but" meaning definitionAmong other resources, you will find these three, all of which give examples in which sentences end abruptly with
anything but.Oxford Online Dictionary (scroll down to phrase "anything but") lists examples that end with
anything but here.Oxford Online Learner's Dictionary does the same thing,
HERE.Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary does the same thing
HERE.
The phrase "anything but" can be followed by more than just adjectives.
This lopsided clay pot is anything but a masterpiece.I'm sure that I have not seen an official question in which the phrase is used at the end of the sentence by itself.
Further, I do not recall ever having seen the phrase in any question, a hunch I confirmed with a not-perfect but very good search
HERE.**
As I suspected, I cannot find an official question that employs the phrase at all, let alone at the end of a sentence by itself.
Is
anything but at the end of a sentence grammatical? Yes.
Are you likely to see it on the GMAT? No.
I'm not exactly sure what your concern is, but I hope I addressed it.
**You could run a search, too, using that search engine on this site.
1) Type two words, no quotation marks, this way: anything but
2) select 'exact match"
3) select "Sentence Correction" on the right
4) scroll down and click "Search."