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Gee Amigo, Good list will make some analogies and post it here for practice. Will that be OK

“Laws should not be stationary and fixed. Instead they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstance, times, and places” Laws, the official rules and regulations generally found in constitutions and the like, are used to govern a society and to control the behavior of its members. In modern societies, authorized bodies such as a legislature make laws. They are sanctifies, for sociological purposes and backed by the coercive power of the state. Adherence is mandatory and any deviation is deterred and punished as the laws are sanctified and adherence to them is made compulsory, the question of whether they are absolute or not may sometimes arise. Society is dynamic and ever changing and evolving. Laws and institutions of governance too have evolved along with it. Law develops as society evolves. The ancient societies, which were mostly tribal, were simple conglomeration of people, the cementing force being kinship and religious belief systems. These were devoid of legal institutions but not of laws. The religious beliefs, mores, traditions, taboos etc. combine to form the ‘unwritten’ laws. Inspite of the absence of organized law enforcing entities, tribal chiefs acted as enforcing authorities. The nature of law then was restrictive to perpetuate society and avenging to prevent wrongdoing against individuals. This nature of law is no different from, and no less important than that of modern law, at least in principle. As the societies gradually evolved into territorial based ones, the concept of state and the ‘state’ law evolved. Governmental structures evolved and so did governmental laws. The changing face of society necessitated a new type of law and modern law began to take shape. Roman Law is the first written compilation of laws and these can be called the mother of laws. These early laws took into consideration the necessities of society and thus the nature of laws was directly dependent upon the nature of the society. All this proves that the laws should be as dynamic as the society they govern, it is the members of the society that tend to influence the nature of laws. If we were to take for example, the legal right to own slaves and the laws that sanctioned this can equally be blamed . The Agri-based south of America before civil war needed work force for agriculture and thus slavery was institutionalized and legally sanctioned. On the other hand the industry based north of America, which did not encourage slavery that much, can be clearly absented here. Thus, the discussion proves beyond doubt that, laws have been flexible all through human history as they should be. This must be the case, as they should serve the society in improving and in perpetuating it. If any law is against human conscience of a given period and place, the society itself develops some internal forces to resist and revise the law in question. The abolition movement in the US, the anti-sati movement instigated by Brahma Samaj in India are examples for this societal action to bring flexibility to the laws. So flexibility of laws is an ideal rather than a violation of tradition.(Ramana)

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It can't be A because whentwo past actions are expressed the first past action should be in the past perfect and the second action should be expressed in the simple past. The first past referent here is the belief and is rightly expressed in the past perfect form. Second point to be noted here is we need an 'and' to indicate a separate main clause. we need a noun referent to refer to the flying reptile and not to the Q.....coleus therefore the and it. Hopefully i have not confused u

DKP is right It sure is an elliptical statement. When you have sucha doubt try extending the sentence with the same verb that was used earlier in the sentence with reference to the subject. Your sentence does not sound right becasue when you extend it 'she sings better than me' cannot be extended to ...better than me can? Consider this He is taller than me or I . Extended it will read He is taller than me 'is' or personal pronoun 'am'. Both are incorrect. Try the sentence with I am.

The grammar rule tested in the second question is that of a participle phrase. The first half of the sentence 'Being a sunday,' is participle and we need a noun or pronoun to modify the library'. So the 'it' in option B does the job. Hope this helps

A participle phrase is not a gerund. The difference is that a participle phrase does not have a subject in it while a gerund can act as a subject. The gerund can occur as V+N while the participle can occur as V+Adj (present as ...ing and past as...ed,en, tor d.)..ed forms are essentially participles of the past. Like Erin rightly says there is parallelism in ...ed and ...ing here.But I think the 'and' poses the problem in qust.210.

The word before decides the fact that the perfect tense must be used and not the simple tense. The present perfect tense indicates an action that has just been completed and requires have.Perhaps an element of plurality here.

The rule here is something is equal to and not equal as.As.......as sequence refers to the positive degree of comparison and here the degree is comparative because it is followed by less.......than.

I believe the phrase 'on having accumulated enough evidence' conveys a cause and effect relationship. Something like a participle phrase because it indicates the necessary condition for conducting a raid. Option D not only changes the meaning but also does not convey the necessary condition.

Hi kapoor, welcome to the bandwagon . Thanks for the comment. keep posting

Hi Amigo, thanks a million.The sentence means that imagination gives the impetus to an idea but the realization of that idea is possible only thru hard work.I've simply taken an example of science and the tedium it involves.

That's right Amigo ! Do you think such questions will help gre test takers

animadiversion a)bifurcation b)criticism c)misdate d)agony e)acclamation asthenia a)countersign b)foible c)beacon d)potence e)oriel

mainstay a)nymph b)damsel c)peripheral d)linchpin e)destitute 2)animadiversion

Having swum is a participle phrase and after the comma there should be a subject referrent i suppose. The sentence is right as it is.

Hi xaero, Thanks! The last but one para is a rebuttal paragraph so it goes against the stand opted for.

166. "Sometimes imagination is a more valuable asset than experience. People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible and thus can approach a task without constraints of established habits and attitudes." Edited by TestMagic for the correct essay number. In today's world imagination is perceived as a valuable asset on which all powers and talents are conceived. While this claim has some merit with respect to most areas of human endeavor we must understand that any imagination is realized only when experience plays an integral part in it. It would be inconceivable to segregate the two and judge the result of any endeavor. As such, the comparative value of imagination and experience cannot be overly emphasised and can be viewed from various perspectives. Experience is the overriding concern in contemporary politics. Most political leaders are elected based on their previous achievements because it offers a measure of security and predictablity in terms of what people can expect from their government. The explanation for this lies in the fact that our system of laws is based on legal precedent and any imagination in this particular direction must pass muster among the various governmental bodies before any of it is implemented. In fact, imagination and the ideology behind a particularly innovative idea, once it has passed the scrutiny of the legal and democratic systems is more readily welcomed by people at large. In contrast, it would appear that any form of art is more likely motivated by an interest in keeping pace with imagination than by a desire to be infettered from it. Great art inspires us to perceive human situations from a new perspective which is dictated by established habits and attitutdes. If we take the early impressionist paintings we observe that it challenges our thinking about visual perception and about the nature of reality we assume we see. In fact, the significance of great artistic achievement transcends time even though it reflects a particular age. It is not very difficult to understand in this context that the timelessness of a work cannot be determined in its own time. Imagination then, is determined by criteria beyond mere influence. When examined against these criteria it is difficult to draw a line as to where imagination stops and where experience begins. There are many instances of individuals whose imagination remains unshackled inspite of their experience. These individuals are noted for their remarkable achievements. Albert Einstein continued to create new theories until much later in his life. But instances such as Einsteins' we can consider as deviation from a normal pattern. On the other hand it is important to note that these assertions about imagination inspite of experience are not always substantiated. The accomplishments of great individuals over a period of time tend to be extensions of earlier ones and may not be as truly inspired as the earlier ones when they were not so shackled by the chains of experience. Scientific discoveries and goals might rely to a certain extent on an individuals imagination to give any idea an impetus but it is only by a long period of trial error in dreary labs and painstaking jobs that has resulted in many new inventions. In conclusion while imagination plays a vital role for any idea to be forn it is experience that hones the imagination to come true.