Know that they usually prefer an infinitive verb, where possible, rather than a gerund (a verb made into a noun). But you don't actually need to know how to deal with these idioms to answer the first one - they don't make you decide based on that fuzziness. Hi Stacey Reviving an old thread ,wanted ...

One more Q from GmatPrep which forces you to make a distinction between to verb and for verb+ing Japan’s abundant rainfall and the typically mild temperature throughout most of the country have produced a lush vegetation cover and, despite the mountainous terrain and generally poor soils, it has mad...

Which of the following completes the argument below. Twenty percent of the stores in Morganville's downtown shopping district will fail within five years because they will be competing directly with the Savemart discount department store newly opened in East Morganville. The downtown shopping distri...

incidentally, you can knock out all of (a), (b), and (c) for the same reason: the disallowed construction "because of NOUN VERBing". see this post . easy pickings if you know you can kill that particular structure. Hi Ron Not able to see the post you have mentioned above ,please post agai...

Hi Ron Here is an Gmatprep problem using "in which case" Until Berta and Ernst Scharrer established the concept of neurosecretion in 1928, scientists believed that either cells secreted hormones, which made them endocrine cells and thus part of the endocrine system, or conducted electrical...

The question is still there . I faced it in my first MGMAT .

Ron/Stacey

I guess you guys missed this post . I am waiting :)

Ron/Stacey

I guess you guys missed this post . Eagerly waiting for your reply :)

I am convinced with the OA and the related reasoning However, I feel option B cannot be discarded because of the modifier issue. option B says ,"Before Independence in 1947" and NOT "Before its independence in 1947" . These 2 modifiers are different and option B is correct as Ind...

Hi Ron How do you justify problematic and ironic I chose pointless and doomed but later realized that it is too strong a tone . This is what MGMAT says about the choice D) CORRECT. The discussion of the mixed results and poor prognosis for the population in Vietnam justifies "problematic." The last...

Instructors - Please help Ron taught a concept related to usage of past perfect in this thread http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/ozone-reaches-high-concentrations-twelve-miles-t3584.html I thought the same concept is also applicable in the question in discussion here and justifed the usage of past...

if you see comma + 'resulting from' , you can eliminate it. you can have it as an adjective modifier, without a comma - as in the following sentence: the flooding resulting from the abnormally strong storms had left six inches of standing water in the street. note that the boldface is an adjective ...