Author: GMATGuruNY Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 4:26 pm (GMT -7) ayushiiitm wrote: I was going through my notes today.

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Sentence Correction :: RE: Confused about adverbial vs adjectival modifiers

Author: ayushiiitm Subject: Confused about adverbial vs adjectival modifiers Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 12:30 pm (GMT -7) I was going through my notes today. I found an ambiguity inferring from my notes

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Author: GMATGuruNY Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:21 am (GMT -7) ayushiiitm wrote: A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, believed to be the largest flying creature the world has ever seen. (A) believed to be (B) and that is believed to be (C) and it is believed to have been (D) which was, it is believed, (E) which is believed to be I know its a very famous question, and has been discussed on forum But I was just not able to understand the explanations Explanation given by Ron for choice A on MGMAT forum says that ‘believed to be’ is a adjective modifier and just like normal modifiers , it modifies what is adjacent so it modifies feet but as I see believed is the past participle , hence it will modify the subject, which is clearly Quetzalcoatlus So where am I going wrong Participles act as adjective modifiers…….

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Sentence Correction :: RE: missing a concept

Author: ayushiiitm Subject: missing a concept Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:54 am (GMT -7) A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, believed to be the largest flying creature the world has ever seen. (A) believed to be (B) and that is believed to be (C) and it is believed to have been (D) which was, it is believed, (E) which is believed to be I know its a very famous question, and has been discussed on forum But I was just not able to understand the explanations Explanation given by Ron for choice A on MGMAT forum says that ‘believed to be’ is a adjective modifier and just like normal modifiers , it modifies what is adjacent so it modifies feet but as I see believed is the past participle , hence it will modify the subject, which is clearly Quetzalcoatlus So where am I going wrong Participles act as adjective modifiers…….

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Sentence Correction :: missing a concept

Author: lunarpower Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:37 am (GMT -7) ansumania wrote: Ron, you pointed out that if we are using ‘present participle’ as modifier , it can only refer to subject and not object. not for all present participles — just for present participles that follow commas. (note that i am careful to describe, on essentially every post where i discuss this phenomenon, that that’s the rule for COMMA + -ING modifiers.) the president participles in this problem don’t follow commas, so this rule does not apply here.

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Author: viidyasagar Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:59 pm (GMT -8) Quote: Second, “to which North Americans are exposed” not only uses the right idiom, it also avoids the issue of dangling participles (although the GMAT doesn’t usually test on that issue, it’s technically incorrect to end a sentence or clause with a preposition). I had come to believe that “that” was the most superior pronoun in GMAT…… Can anybody cite the difference between “to which” and “that”….

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