armie480

That's unfair! :crazy:

In affirmative sentences, indeed, there must be a subject and a verb, e.g. He goes to school. However, imperative sentences do not need subjects, e.g. Take a sit. Have a good weekend.

In this type of questions, 'the answer' is the wrong option. D is wrong, so it is the answer. A is correct, so it is not.

In the sentence Please open the window! which of the words would you treat as a subject? Right, none. The same in the sentence we discuss here. A is wrong by its meaning, not by its grammar. To achieve a particular result (i.e. to relieve pressure in the skull), one should do certain thing (i.e. inject a strong solution of pure glucose into the blood). To say 'you will' makes no sense in this context. It is not a description of what one will do (or will not do), it is what one should do to achieve certain result. No prophesying, but prescription! Another example. Please open the window to let some fresh air in! It is absolutely meaningless to reformulate it like 'To let some fresh air in, you will open the window'. What if I won't open the window? How can one be sure I will? :p

There is no passive here and should not be. The sentence offers an instruction what one should do to relieve pressure in the skull. Only the option D properly conveys the meaning.

Hi gmat_fighter A is correct. The answer is D: 'for complexity' -> 'for the complexity'.

Hi cyberagl The answer is D: [in order] To relieve pressure in the skull, inject a strong solution of pure glucose into the blood. This has nothing to do with parallelism.

Hi deren The second sentence sounds better, but the use of 'get out' in this context is misleading and incorrect. Say simply 'get'.

Hi hainp Who 'we'? :p For example, I have always thought that 'should it rain' is roughly equal to 'if it rains' (or, more literally, 'if it happens to rain'), not 'if it does not rain'. The meaning is the same. Grammar apart, why should a farmer miss good weather and not gather the harvest when it luckily does not rain?

Hi cepriego Your explanation is correct, but it should be 'if it rains' (not if it rain).

Hi gmat_fighter C: decay -> decays. C: into -> in. C: yet -> so. B: 'a phenomenon that accelerated'.

No. In fact, there is no rule like that. Wrong! This one is absolutely correct. Wrong. I have searched for a scientific explanation of this type of inversion, and here it is (M. Swan): When an adverbial expression of place or direction comes at the beginning of a clause, intransitive verbs are often put before thier subjects. This happens especially when a new indefinite subject is being introduced. The structure is most common in literary and descriptive writing. Under a tree was lying one of the biggest men I had ever met. On the grass sat an enormous frog. Directly in front of them stood a medieval castle. Along the road came a strange procession.

Hi Lyf B -> during sleep. The use of the infinitive after 'the first' is a special pattern one should know. E.g. 'she was the first woman in Britain to receive a Master's degree without having a BA' or 'he was the first to offer me help' etc.

This is the link to Erin's explanation of the Banana Rule.

Hi cyberagl I think you just have to accept that the inversion goes only like this. It is not that you change the word order as you wish, and bingo, you get an inversion. In fact, only particularly changed word order makes up certain meaning which other combination of words would not comprise. 'Came into the room a new student' sounds grammatically wrong to me, like a mess of words from which one needs to create a normal sentence (e.g. boring was lecture the' -> 'the lecture was boring'). In case you do not know Erin's wonderful explanation of inversion (I am sure you do), this is the link. Noooo! That's not English! :crazy: