14 nov 2013 A new study suggests that the conversational

[aflaamM589]

Great discussion.
In D) ...results in not making, to me it refers to conversational pace itself rather than to children. Ron can you confirm this. preposition Verbing refers to subject.

to me ,in E, the construction so brisk as to hamper is correctly used.
Is , resulting is the error in this choice, implying that pace itself is resulting in being unable blah blah?
is my understanding of so X as to Y and comma ing correct?

Moreover, in this SC and in many other, i see to verb is preffered to for verbing.
I understand for goal, desire etc we use to verb.
Can someone tell me in which situationsfor verbing is preferred to to verb.
Best

[RonPurewal]

Great discussion.
In D) ...results in not making, to me it refers to conversational pace itself rather than to children. Ron can you confirm this. preposition Verbing refers to subject.

to me ,in E, the construction so brisk as to hamper is correctly used.
Is , resulting is the error in this choice, implying that pace itself is resulting in being unable blah blah?
is my understanding of so X as to Y and comma ing correct?

i'm not 100 percent sure what you are asking here, but, you seem to have the correct general idea, which is that the children are "unable to make sense of speech".
since the previous part of the sentence has "conversational pace" as its subject, yes, we have to CHANGE THE SUBJECT to "children" -- and that doesn't happen in these 2 choices.

the exact mechanics aren't particularly important, because, in both cases, we have sentences that imply that the conversational pace itself is "unable to make sense of speech".

[RonPurewal]

Moreover, in this SC and in many other, i see to verb is preffered to for verbing.
I understand for goal, desire etc we use to verb.
Can someone tell me in which situationsfor verbing is preferred to to verb.
Best

you shouldn't think of "preferences" in SC, because "preferences" are basically not things that exist.

you should think of SC ONLY in terms of...
... things that are right vs, things that are wrong,
... clear COMPARISONS between answer choices on a single problem (= answer choices that are clearly better vs. answer choices that are clearly worse).

"preferences" should not enter the picture.

[RichaChampion]

"As a result" doesn't follow a noun here, so I'm not seeing how this idea is relevant.

I didn't get this part.

[RonPurewal]

oh, i thought that poster was talking about "as a result of [NOUN]" (which doesn't appear in this problem).

well, the poster didn't continue that part of the discussion, so it seems that my response must have been adequate... |:

[RichaChampion]

3.explain why hampers and results are not parallel in D

They should have different subjects.
The subject of "hampers" should be "it" = "conversational pace".
If "results" is a verb, then its subject shouldn't be the conversational pace itself; rather, it should be the idea that the speed of conversation hinders children's ability to distinguish words.

Ron Sir,

You want to say that this is true -
Clause 1, and Clause 2

The subject of Clause 1 is different from subject of clause 2 and this is also never true at least for GMAT.

Subject Verb........, and Verb...... This structure is also not correct as the clause 2 can't take subject of the clause 1 and with ||'sm in mind we must always write full Subject Verb after "and"

[RonPurewal]

i'm sorry, but i don't understand either of the questions you are asking.

can you please phrase these questions in terms of SPECIFICS?

thanks.