Whether this 'people' as a subject of the sentence is rightly used as plural , although I can see in the no underline section there has 'show' instead of 'shows' . Should not this be shows and the problem itself should be corrected? Or people as a subject can be both singular and plural ?

1. If Sophie EATS pizza tomorrow, then she WILL BECOME ill. 2. If Sophie ATE pizza tomorrow, then she would become ill My questions are: a. How is 1 in present? even though EATS (present tense) is used, we're talking about tomorrow. b. Why 'ate' , the past form of eat is used to tell some action on ...

Original Sentence : Because Cole wears a helmet when he struck on the head by a falling coconut 10 years ago, he escaped injury in that episode. Manhattan GMAT solution : Because Cole was wearing a helmet when he was struck on the head with a falling coconut 10 years ago, he escaped injury in that e...

Hi Ben/ MGMAT Instructor - I have some doubt regarding the underlined portion . I think the original version is also correctly used the passive form of has awarded . For elastration - in active if the sentence is like - The committee has awarded a Pulitzer prize to the editor yesterday , in passive ...

Thanks Jamie for the clarification .

Hi Jamie, thanks for answering, however i am neither convinced nor could find any logical scientific explanation in your answers rather both the answers failed to referred any rules and rather depending mostly on the matter of perception of the writer . a)"when she is actually eating the pizza ...

In 'in action answer key' the right answer is
c) It seems as if the flag....

qs : 'Seems' already conveys the sense of uncertainty then why 'as if' should be correct with seems ?

The last two sentences of page 113 is very direct to decide the verb form .
Suppose you have to tell you friend directly , what will you tell then - 'do your work' . not, 'does your work' . thats the verb form should be used in subjunctive mood .

Hi Ankit - The answer key is there in chappter 10, page 189 . My understanding is - 'though...yet' is wrong in GMAT , only one connecting word required to connect two clasues/parts of a sentence . so the right form is '[though..., ---- ]or [----, yet...]'. Comma(,) is essetial for both the cases as ...

Hi tim ,
Thanks for your explanation, bringing perspective into the 'time scale' makes things somewhat clear . Also the best suggestions noted !

- Pranab.

Thanks Tim for confirming that this is in the domain of idioms !

- Pranab

Makes perfect sense, Thanks tim for your wonderful direct approach to clarify things .

- Pranab

Hi Jamie & Tim - You both have wrongly spelled my name, it should be Pranab, not Prana ! There should not have any confusion among similar words :-)
- Pranab.

Hi Tim - I think Ankit is asking - given two answers otherwise similar if one starts with 'although' and other connected with 'yet' in the middle is there any GMAT preference regarding which one should be selected

- Pranab.

Hi,

I found a typo at the end of the answer key option a ). The word mean is wrong ,it should be median .

Please confirm .

Thanks,
Pranab.