Ron, ple,help me with the following.
there are two sentence
I learn gmat by reading a lot
productivity can be improved by separating a job into many parts.
in the first, agent of reading is subject of main clause, doing/reading in this sentence refers to a noun, subject of main clause in this case,
in the second sentence, separating refers to no noun in the sentence and is the agent which make the action in the main clause.
it is clear that though both "doing" in the first and second sentences look the same, they are different totally.
am I correct, ? Ron
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Re: GMATPrep - Frederick Winslow Taylor
^^ this is irrelevant here, because you can handle those parts of the sentence with basic parallelism.
choice D:
separating..., finding..., and then redesigning...
these constructions are non-parallel in all of the other options.
this is one of the most important principles in SC: wherever there's an OBVIOUS or FUNDAMENTAL ERROR... you should IGNORE ALL of the LESS obvious / LESS fundamental errors!
in these cases, all of the smaller "issues" are just distractions.
this is actually one of the major reasons why SC even exists on this test. among other purposes, SC is specifically designed to test your ability to IGNORE LESS significant aspects of the problems, when those things appear alongside major/obvious/fundamental errors.
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if you can find an official problem on which this difference is actually NECESSARY—i.e., you can't solve the problem without it—then, please cite that problem (in the appropriate place on the forum).
if you can't find such a problem, then, that's the real point here: this is an irrelevant distraction. in that case, paying attention to this will only hurt your performance—just as it would here.
in other words, this problem should be a perfectly straightforward exercise in parallelism. if you find it "hard" because you're paying attention to issues such as the one above, then ... you know what lesson you should take from that.
choice D:
separating..., finding..., and then redesigning...
these constructions are non-parallel in all of the other options.
this is one of the most important principles in SC: wherever there's an OBVIOUS or FUNDAMENTAL ERROR... you should IGNORE ALL of the LESS obvious / LESS fundamental errors!
in these cases, all of the smaller "issues" are just distractions.
this is actually one of the major reasons why SC even exists on this test. among other purposes, SC is specifically designed to test your ability to IGNORE LESS significant aspects of the problems, when those things appear alongside major/obvious/fundamental errors.
__
if you can find an official problem on which this difference is actually NECESSARY—i.e., you can't solve the problem without it—then, please cite that problem (in the appropriate place on the forum).
if you can't find such a problem, then, that's the real point here: this is an irrelevant distraction. in that case, paying attention to this will only hurt your performance—just as it would here.
in other words, this problem should be a perfectly straightforward exercise in parallelism. if you find it "hard" because you're paying attention to issues such as the one above, then ... you know what lesson you should take from that.