My best advice for namely is simply to gloss it as as follows , here and elsewhere. Now to the technical answer to your question. I hate to multiply grammatical categories, but namely is what is called a conjunctive adverb. It doesn't modify the noun it introduces; it represents the relationship be...

Hi, Ron!
I am still confused about the usage of "what" in the question. I know we should not question the correct answer, but I just find a sentence without "what" in OG. I just paste the correct sentence here:

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i don't know what "noun clause" means, but there's no need to consider such things on this exam. "namely" is used to clarify something appears in the preceding sentence this ^^ is correct, and it's the only thing you need to know here. (" specify " is a better word tha...

hi, Ron! Is "the original meaning" the same as the meaning of option A as long as it is reasonable? Can you please clarify how to find the "original meaning" of the sentence? since in this context, it seems that "the proposal is controversial" is the original meaning. H...

hi, Ron, I have a problem about the option C. I noticed, as someone said in the post before, original post has something wrong with option c. After I checked, the option C should be: "C. while they have introduced 100,000 dangerous chemical pollutants at the same time, which have " then, i...

hi, instructors, i met this problem in my CAT exam. i hesitated between C and D for a long time. I noticed that C used the phrase "FAR outnumber" and D, on the other hand, used the phrase "MOST have publicized". Since it's just "MOST" of them, I think the plan will do s...

Hi, Ron, i understand what you have said, but I found that another difference between D and E is that D uses "are reduced" while E uses "have been reduced". I found it hard for me, sometimes, to attack an option with "verb tense". Could you help me figure out whether &q...

Really appreciate your reply! Actually i have another problem: the correct answer uses "while introducing...". I am confused about this usage, "while + VERBing". Could you clarify that for me? Under what circumstances can we use this kind of structure? I know that the tenses of t...