davetzulin Wrote:now the comparison tries to include the verb, but then immediately adds the prepositional phrase for the age right after. it misses the "to women"
all the wrong answer choices seem to fail and i'm wondering if i can use this on comparison problems instead of trying to find "meaning" flaws in 5 answer choices, eating up all my time.
i guess i don't quite get what you're asking here, because the example you've given
is in error of meaning. specifically, the phrase "born under it" is incorrect because of the meaning that it suggests, i.e., the idea that the babies themselves are under age 30 when they are born (a statement that is trivially true, of course, but that is obviously not the intended message).
more generally, there seems to be a default attitude here of "i would rather learn 1000 different micro-rules than think about the actual message of the sentence".
not only will that kind of approach not work, but, in fact, the entire sentence correction section is
designed so that that kind of approach will not work -- an idea stated more or less explicitly by gmac's head of research in the next-to-last paragraph of this blog post:
http://www.mba.com/mbacommunity/MBA_com ... -exam.aspx