Many financial experts believe that policy makers

[WenjiaC918]

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[soulwangh]

None of us moderators know what "sth" means, so we can't help you until you spell out what you mean.

Everyone, please understand that when you use non-universal abbreviations in your questions, the result is that we will have to ask you to clarify, which ironically will mean that the process will take way longer than if you had just spelled everything out clearly from the beginning.

Tim

Very sorry!

“Sth” is short for something.
I have been taught this abbreviation by teachers since the first day I learned english in China.
I see someone has used it in this forum and thus take it for granted.
Sorry again.

[soulwangh]

Your issue seems to be something along the lines of "I thought that ____ was incorrect usage, but it showed up in an official correct answer."

The response is always the same:
If it's in an official correct answer, then it's correct usage-- and now you're aware of it.

There's not much to say here, other than "It's not wrong".

Hey，watch the Straw man fallacy.
I know the correct answer is correct and I must be wrong for some reason.
That is why I give my line of reasoning to have Manhattan Gmat SC experts help me correct my wrong and wired thinking.

My question is what is the property of "as" in "view X as Y"?
Prep or something else?
If prep, why it can be followed by an adj?

Thanks in advance.

[tim]

I don't see this as a straw man at all. It looks to me like Ron accurately summed up your observation, and his response was totally on point. If you're asking us to help us resolve the cognitive dissonance you are having about learning something one way only to find out the GMAT disagrees with you, the best possible advice we can give is for you to let go of what you learned - at least for purposes of taking the GMAT. There are things I learned differently in school from what the GMAT expects, and I just have to keep those anomalies in mind when I'm answering GMAT questions.

It also looks like you're asking about parts of speech. Ultimately knowing parts of speech is far less useful on the GMAT than most people realize.

[soulwangh]

I don't see this as a straw man at all. It looks to me like Ron accurately summed up your observation, and his response was totally on point. If you're asking us to help us resolve the cognitive dissonance you are having about learning something one way only to find out the GMAT disagrees with you, the best possible advice we can give is for you to let go of what you learned - at least for purposes of taking the GMAT. There are things I learned differently in school from what the GMAT expects, and I just have to keep those anomalies in mind when I'm answering GMAT questions.

It also looks like you're asking about parts of speech. Ultimately knowing parts of speech is far less useful on the GMAT than most people realize.

Hi Tim，
Thanks for sharing your personal experience about learning english and Gmat.
Very practical and useful.
For a non-native speaker, it is hard to distinguish the general rule kind of knowledge that you can reason out the right pattern by using some basic premise, from the idiomatic kind of knowledge that you just have to remember. Also it is more harder for a non-native speaker to distinguish the Gmat-useful knowledge form Gmat-useless knowledge.
Anyway, I will learn to let go of my complex and focus on Gmat-useful thing.

Thanks again.

[RonPurewal]

My question is what is the property of "as" in "view X as Y"?
Prep or something else?
If prep, why it can be followed by an adj?

Thanks in advance.

If you can say "X is Y", then you can also "view X as Y".

Y can be a noun (X is a challenge; Many people view X as a challenge).

It can also be an adjective (X is difficult; Many people view X as difficult).

It could possibly be other things, too, although I can't immediately think of anything else.

(No clue about the grammar terms.)

[soulwangh]

My question is what is the property of "as" in "view X as Y"?
Prep or something else?
If prep, why it can be followed by an adj?

Thanks in advance.

If you can say "X is Y", then you can also "view X as Y".

Y can be a noun (X is a challenge; Many people view X as a challenge).

It can also be an adjective (X is difficult; Many people view X as difficult).

It could possibly be other things, too, although I can't immediately think of anything else.

(No clue about the grammar terms.)

Thanks for the explanation.
Have Learned a lot from you!

[RonPurewal]

excellent.

[HemantR606]

Hi Ron,

In the original answer, 'viewing economy as moderate growth' seemed very strange to me.

How are 'moderate growth' and 'economy' similar?



Thank you in advance

[RonPurewal]

Hi Ron,

In the original answer, 'viewing economy as moderate growth' seemed very strange to me.

that would seem very strange to me, too... IF the sentence actually said that.
but it doesn't.
(the sentence says that people see the economy 'as balanced'.)

[vili1108]

In choice D, can "who" jump over prepositional phrase to modify "policy makers"? It seems occasionally "which" can jump over to modify noun in OG problem.

Thanks

[RonPurewal]

usage-of-which-t746-15.html#p104933

[RonPurewal]

also, if you think for a few seconds, you'll realize that it's absolutely impossible to write this sentence WITHOUT 'jumping' over that modifier.
(clearly we can't break up "policy makers at the federal reserve"—if we did, we'd end up with a sentence about policy makers in general.)

[wun866]

Ron,

I have looked through all the thread, but still have confusion of the modifier.

What is "now viewing" modified? I thought it should modify policy makers according to the meaning, but how can V-ing modify the noun between other two (financial experts & Federal Reserve)?

For the Noun+prep. phrase "policy makers at the Federal Reserve", in D, why cannot who modifier modify policy makers since Federal Reserve is in the Preposition phrase?

[RonPurewal]

it's impossible to split up "policy makers at the Federal Reserve" without destroying the meaning of the phrase -- so you should just process that entire phrase as a single noun.