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Yeah! I agree. Princeton software is terrible!

E - uses the correct parallel order and verb form A is ambiguous. Note that judge has allowed the members to confine "them". The refelxive form "themselves" is required.

B is right answer. "Retailer" is singular, so "its" is the correct usage. "Had been" is past perfect and does not fit with "recently". The problems are not completed in past. So, present perfect "has been" is correct.

B is the right answer First, The sentence needs a contrast between Balzac and Samuel Johnson. So "however" is appropriate. Second, "to have bothered" is the correct tense form that goes parallel with "to have drunk" later in the sentence.

B is the right answer. A - to sell / standardize / to predict not parallel C - to sell / standardizing / to predict not parallel D - take is not correct, the -ing clause is required as in B E same as D

In case of "and" subjects compound and the verb becomes plural. "as well as", "along with" do not make the verb plural. However, the verb will follow the number of the last noun. Jack along with John (singular) is (singular) playing in the game. (correct) Jack along with his friends (plural) are (plural) playing in the game. (correct) Tom and John are good friends. (correct) - both Tom and John are singular but "and" compounds them. Tom as well as John was (singular) not invited to the party. (correct)

In case of "along with" - the number for the latter noun will dictate whether to use "is" or "are" Jack along with John is playing in the game. Jack along with his friends are playing in the game.

A is correct. Sentence is in present tense - use can.

A is correct. "along with his four distinguished colleagues" is plural. "Along with" does not compund the subject but modifies plural subject. Therefore, the verb has to be plural - are.

Agree with metodiev. Note that "while" gives a progressive aspect, so the progressive "raising" is acceptable. Also, parallelism can take place between participles have reduced.... while rising can be treated parallel

A - not only ... but also (as metodiev has already pointed out) B - also is unnecesasry, and changes the meaning from something that he believed to something that is a fact C - themselves - is unnecessary D - both .. and is the correct usage E - they is ambiguous procedures/admonitions

I prefer common over frequent. The question is not how often spouses, but there are more couples who both work. Why not E? "As couples in which..." is not proper usage. In addition it is wordy.

B, I think changes the meaning. "describes" would mean that the work per se describes the architecture, where as A uses the infinitive "turned out to describe" means that the work progressively described/led to description later.

D is slightly ambiguous and can be more restrictive. It may seem only land is used as a collateral Declining values (for farm equipment) and (land, which farmers use as collateral to borrow against to get through the harvest season,) are E is concise and clear. Declining values (for farm equipment and land,) ((the collateral against which farmers borrow to get through the harvest season)) (are) going to force many lenders to tighten or deny credit this spring

I prefer B. Which cannot act as a relative pronoun for an entire clause in GMAT land. Between B and D, B is preferable since we need a conjunction "and" to initiate an independent clause.

4. Caesarea was Herod’s city, founded as a Romanized counterweight to Hebraic Jerusalem, and being such it was regarded with loathing by the devout. (A) being such (B) as such © for this (D) so (E) so being It seems B is the correct answer. Can someone please explain what's wrong in taking the first clause as the cause for the second clause and using "so" which means therefore. I am not able to understand how to distinguish between B and D.

1) B - they refers to jawbones/teeth/years 2) B - as well as 3) E - interested ...in is the idiom 4) D - so, used as a connective adverb meaning "therefore, as a result".

There is nothing that states that there is a greater chance of more female children born for every single male child. Let's consider 100 couples. 50 couples have sons and 50 daughters. The first 50 use birth control. The rest 50 give birth to 25 sons and 25 daughters. Therefore, total males - 75, total females - 75. Total pop = 150 If no birth control is used, the couples who have sons give birth to 50 sons and 50 daughters. males = 100, females 100, total = 200. Therefore, population is slowed, gender balance is is the same as it is at present

D changes the meaning. ...despised enough means as if the necessary condition was met, while the sentence means that vegetable farming was despised to an extent that it was forbidden...

Why not E? Can we treat "Breeding and education" as singular like "Bread and butter is my usual breakfast"

I agree. However, "..treat client like idiots" is correct. Here "like" is not a conjunction. ' treat as if they were idiots..' is also correct, but notice a difference here. You are adding "they" and saying "they were idiots" which is okay by itself. Now, in the second part of the sentence, we don't have the choice of dropping they. So we have to use "as if" because "they" starts a new clause and we need a conjunction here. The above post discourages the use of like as a conjunction

I go for C. "ability to" is more idiomatic that "ability for". A,B E have passive structures that are less precise

Best answer is C. Check this excerpt from http://www.bartleby.com/64/pages/page19.html like Tell it like it is. It’s like I said. I remember it like it was yesterday. As these familiar examples show, like is often used as a conjunction meaning “as” or “as if.” In fact, writers since Chaucer’s time have used like as a conjunction. But language critics and writing handbooks have condemned this use of like for more than a century, and a writer who uses it in formal style risks being tarred with their brush. If you want to avoid this fate, use as or as if instead: Sales of new models rose as (not like) we expected them to. He ran as if (not like) his life depended on it. Note, however, that there is sometimes a subtle difference between like and as if. With like, there is often a stronger suggestion that the following clause is true. For example, the sentence The teachers treat her like she has real talent is not exactly equivalent to The teachers treat her as if she had real talent. The sentence using as if implies that her talent could be in doubt.

A is the best answer. The sentence is stating a general fact. So present tense is preferred. Moreover, "carry" is parallel to other general attributes of the minivan - cost less, etc.