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  1. I am hungry. Hungry is the adjective modifies the Subject (I). I am feeling hungry. Hungry is the adverb modifies the Verb (am feeling). Is this correct?
  2. Thanks a bunch for your answer, Erin!! Studying GMAT can be pretty fun :)
  3. Thanks Erin!! ;) 1) Herself the mother of seven children, Mrs. Newland dicusses the care of infants in very helpful ways. A) Herself B) Herself being C) In that she is herself D) Because of being herself E) Being herself A is the correct answer, I choose B, isn't B) sounds better? 2) The ideal cities of Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier, different from one another as they were, were all based on a belief that physical order in itself could bring about the good life. A) different from one another as they were B) different one from the other as they were c) different from each other as every one was D) differing as each was, one from the other E) although each differed from another A is the right one, I go for B) because I thought "one" refers to the "ideal" ... 3) The average weekly wage nearly doubled in the 1970's, rising from $114 to $220, yet the average worker ended the decade with a decrease in what their pay may buy. A) with a decrease in what their pay may buy E) with a decrease in purchasing power A) is the right answer, I pick E), isn't "purchasing power" is concise way to say "what their pay may buy" !? 4) For Americans, the most seductive appeal of radical ideologies is that all in one way or another attack the competitive foundation of the social structure in the United States. A) is that all in one way or another attack B) is that all in one way or another attacks D) are that all in one way or another attacks D) are that all in one way or another attack I am pretty sure is B) because is....attacks, but A is the correct answer, why? 5) Tolson's poem censures Western colonialism while celebrating traditional African values. A) while celebrating B) as it celebrated C) in celebration of D) and celebrated E) but was a celebration of A) is the correct one, but I picked C). I know it's about the meaning, but not sure what's the difference...
  4. 1) For all the remarkable advances in cell biology during the last twenty-five years, little new information has been discovered about the nature and function of eukaryotic cells. A) For all the B) Along with all the c) Because of all the D) Despite there being E) Althought ther exist I chose B), but A) is the right answer. What's the difference in meaning between A and B? Thanks!!
  5. 1) Professional baseball contracts have a standard provision, the reserve clause, under which the rights to a player are permanently retained by the team that originally hires him or acquires his contract. A) under which b) which assures c) that assures d) for which e) that My answer is c) because I thought: provision ...that assures is a complete sentence. But the correct answer is A), why? It sounds like an incomplete sentence. 2) All five-hundred dollar and thousand-dollar bills were withdrawn from circulation in 1969, and this left the one-hundred dollar bill to be the highest denomination of currency. a) and this left the one-hundred dollar bill to be the highest denomination of currency b) an act which has left the hundred-dollar bill to be the highest crrency denomination. c) leaving the highest denomination of currency to be the one-hundred dollar bill d) leaving the one-hundred dollar bill as the highest denomination of currency. My choice is a), but the correct answer is d). Is d) an adjective clause? That's why it doesn't need a complete sentence...
  6. Biologists believe that they have found one of the substances that tell individual genes both when to become active and when to remainquiescent in the earliest phases of an embryo's development. A) D) tells individual .....(same as A) Correct answer is A. I pick D. Isn't One is the subject... Thanks!!
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