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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset.
A. To complete law school,
B. To complete law school
C. If you want to complete law school,
D. When completing law school,
E. Upon completion of law school,

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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 05 Apr 2005, 17:32
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go with "B"....I think we don't need a "," here. Can someone elaborate or rules of ",".
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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 05 Apr 2005, 19:31
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I go with B.

The rules for comma say that..

1) Use commas after introductory participial or prepositional phrases

"To complete" is definitely not a participial phrase. To followed by a verb is an infinitive ( "To" followed by a noun or a pronoun is a prepositional phrase).

2) Use commas to separate independent clauses.

"To complete law school" is not an independent clause.

So A is ruled out..
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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 05 Apr 2005, 19:34
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I'm not sure on the rules of using commas, but again, I think this is not standard GMAT questions. I've read somewhere, that punctuation is not tested on the GMAT. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 05 Apr 2005, 20:57
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I go with B. The rules for comma say that..
2) Use commas to separate independent clauses. "To complete law school" is not an independent clause.
So A is ruled out..
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I prefer A too. i think semi-colon ( ; ), not coma, is used to seperate the independent clauses.
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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 06 Apr 2005, 00:25
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I go with B. The rules for comma say that..
2) Use commas to separate independent clauses. "To complete law school" is not an independent clause.
So A is ruled out..

I prefer A too. i think semi-colon ( ; ), not coma, is used to seperate the independent clauses.
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I think "To complete Law school" is a prepositional phrase and not an independent clause - will go with A
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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 06 Apr 2005, 04:54
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B.....the structure before and after comma should be able to stand on their own....A is out.....so comma not needed
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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 06 Apr 2005, 04:58
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"to complete law school" is an infinitive phrase and as an introductory modifyer, it MUST be separated from the independent clause. B makes "law school commitment" a collective noun and is wrong.
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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 07 Apr 2005, 11:13
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"to complete law school" is an infinitive phrase and as an introductory modifyer, it MUST be separated from the independent clause. B makes "law school commitment" a collective noun and is wrong.
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agree with Paul. without the comma, the passage might become a run-on
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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 07 Apr 2005, 11:37
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agree with Paul. without comma, it sounds like a run on sentence to me.
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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 11 Apr 2005, 01:47
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Actually I go with A.
However, the correct answer, according to Peterson's 1999, is C "If you want to complete law school,".
Can anyone give a valid explanation?
Many thanks!
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To complete law school, commitment is an important asset. 11 Apr 2005, 06:05
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The OA was given as (C). Though (C) is correct, but it's not as concise as (A). I'll still stick with (A) though.



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