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Several educational research groups are denouncing the mayor's proposa 27 Mar 2022, 21:26
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I suppose the answer to whether any grammatical construction is “correct”, independent of provided answer choices, is always “it depends.” (with the exception of stricter concepts such as Parallelism and Subject-Verb/Pronoun Agreement)
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Would agree with this. Based upon what we (instructors) observe to be generally true of all/most official questions, we codify rules. But GMAT obviously is continuously pushing boundaries on this, to challenge the test-takers.

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I can’t believe that the test creators would spend so much effort constructing the sentences and not put thought into each word that is placed in the sentence.
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I do think test creators put in a lot of effort and know what they are asking. Inadvertent slip-ups would be extremely rare, if not non-existent.

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Another “controversial” area that comes to mind is the “Heating-oil” question and the issue regarding Ellipsis and whether one must repeat the Helping Verb in all instances of tense-change.
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I still continue to believe that explicitly mentioning the verb is not necessary in case of a linking verb, even if there is a tense change. :)
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