those three examples are "with + noun + __ ING ...", which works differently. that construction describes a circumstance that contributes to the entire situation described in the following clause, not just the subject. 1/ the bidders' actions made the art unaffordable for everyone else. 2...

>> Today’s technology allows manufacturers to make small cars that are more fuel-efficient than those were at any time in their production history you can't use "those" as a standalone pronoun. you can use it in a larger construction -- such as "those at any other time..."...

Since both of those modifiers describe the same animal, it's not impossible to put them in parallel. "Grow ing " describes a process that happens over a particular time interval, though, while "famous" is a general fact. ("Growing" would have to be attached to a senten...

Hi Ron ~~ in choice D. Executives’ being heavily committed to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes them likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them when they do appear. as you said, possessives are adjectives, not nouns, so executives' is not ...

Besides, I have another question about the ambiguity of pronoun. in one of your posts, you said our understanding of the gmat's pronoun rules has evolved by leaps and bounds recently. in particular, we have discovered that the gmat actually has much, much more tolerance for ambiguous pronouns than w...

Ouch ! and another question... as you said, the construction "make something likely" is correct. but it means that a particular orientation or choice of behavior (= excessive commitment) is what makes xxxxx thing likely. The construction itself is just fine, provided that it actually conve...

sorry i've just wrongly post something here, and i edit it again in order to delete the original content.

please ignore this and just answer my question above.. thanx ><

hi ron. i've already seen your post that said if you're going to say COMMA + "twice as many as...", then that's incorrect unless there's actually a quantity in front of the comma. e.g. last year i read 40 books, twice as many as i read in the preceding year --> correct last year the num...

Ron, i get a little bit confused after reading all your explanations. so can i conclude from your explanations my own comprehension on this question here? #1. what the France assumed was not hypothetical, it was an actual case with certainty. #2. two usages of "would": one is the past vers...

Do we have a meaning error in B Twenty-one ceramic dog figurines discovered at the excavation or only Subject Verb issue?( non underlined part has 'has' in it) ya, there's also a problem with the meaning there. (the figurines themselves didn't just magically double the number; the discovery of thos...

so ron, as you said, because of something +V.ing makes sense only if V.ing serves as a modifier of "something" . I wonder can we say "because of doing something" if the causal agent is "doing"; if the answer is yes, should the subject of the independent clause that &quo...

in this sentence: As a result of the continuing decline in the birth rate, fewer people will enter the labor force in the 1980’s than (people did) in the 1960’s and 1970’s, a twenty-year period during which people born after the war swelled the ranks of workers. can i omit " people did" in...

hi ron! in this question: According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, (A)doubling those reported in the 1977 survey. OA (E) : twice the number reported in the 1977 survey we cannot choose A for the following three reasons : #1....

we cannot say Concerns about public health have led to the construction of three separate sewer systems between 1876 and 1904 to serve… since "Have led" would mean concerns continued till today, whereas the objective of the sentence is that there were concerns during the 1800's. Concerns a...

this discussion thread has almost 150 posts. these ideas are certainly going to be in there somewhere. please try not to post ideas that are already contained in the thread. thank you. (if you are responding to something that's posted earlier in the thread, please quote the text to which you are re...