The three women, liberal activists who strongly

[RonPurewal]

"unqualified" mean not good enough.

that's a different meaning of "unqualified" (as in "James is unqualified for the job"). it doesn't apply here.

here, "qualified" means "with some sort of restrictions/reservations".
for instance:
I will support you, but only if you do some favors for me in return --> this is a QUALIFIED declaration of support; it is qualified by the requirement of favors in return.
I will support you no matter what you do --> this is an UNQUALIFIED declaration of support.

[thanghnvn]

Thank you Ron,

pls, help

in D and E, "support by labor" is wrong or not and why.

[chandrahasreddy]

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once, just once, i'd like to see a sentence about people dedicated to a conservative cause.
just once.

i think i'm going to have to wait a very long time.

Ron,
This quote amused me. :)

Do you mean you rarely see from GMAT or from posters in the forum?

PS: I know that you made the quote on a lighter note(with hint of sarcasm).

[tim]

you can have "the support of [something]" or "support from [something]", but "support by [something]" is an incorrect idiom..

[srjayanthi]

"Unqualifying" means something that doesn't meet a certain standard.

"Unqualified" means with no restrictions or reservations. It means that the women received very good support.

-SJ

[tim]

thanks!

[thanghnvn]

you can have "the support of [something]" or "support from [something]", but "support by [something]" is an incorrect idiom..

Thank You very much, Tim.

Normally,
NOUN BY NOUN is wrong.

and

TO BE DONE BY SOMEONE/SOMETHING is right.

I never see NOUN BY NOUN.

Is that right?

[RonPurewal]

you can have "the support of [something]" or "support from [something]", but "support by [something]" is an incorrect idiom..

Thank You very much, Tim.

Normally,
NOUN BY NOUN is wrong.

and

TO BE DONE BY SOMEONE/SOMETHING is right.

I never see NOUN BY NOUN.

Is that right?

no. this sort of thing is idiomatic -- case by case. fortunately, the chance that it will ever be tested on the gmat is close to nil.

you can have death by suffocation; your web page can contain remarks by an editor; just to name a couple that come to mind.

in general, trying to memorize random patterns like these is not going to get you anywhere on this exam. you should concentrate instead on concepts, such as parallelism and agreement, that can manifest in many different forms and are frequently tested.

[elibloshtein]

I don't understand why this was tested. This is essentially a vocabulary question, and I've never seen vocabulary tested on the GMAT before.

[thanghnvn]

The clear reason for D and E to be wrong is that "consistently" is used without any problem in the original choice and should be kept. we only can change something in the original choice if that thing is wrong. This is a hard rule and the rule of gmat thinking. This rule is never declared in OG books and so makes the SC problems like this SC problem harder.

Is my thinking correct? experts, member pls, comment.

if my idea is correct. Can I make a slogan.
WE ONLY CAN CHANGE SOMETHING IN THE ORIGINAL CHOICE IF THAT THING IS INCORRECT/ILLOGIC.

Pls, comment, Thank you.

why I want to make a slogan? to make it easy to remember.
The problem with me is that I can understand the explanation immediately but I still can not perform on some SC problems.

[RonPurewal]

we only can change something in the original choice if that thing is wrong.

i don't see where you're going with this. why would you want to change something if it's not wrong in the first place?

[visitdhiraj]

Hi Ron,

could you please clarify me the tense used in the correct answer?

The present perfect tense used in the correct answer choice suggests that the three women enjoyed support of the labor from a certain period until now, and we don't whether they enjoy the same support from here on.

Would a simple present tense made much more sense in the present context?

Thanking you in advance

rgds

Dheeraj

[RonPurewal]

Hi Ron,

could you please clarify me the tense used in the correct answer?

The present perfect tense used in the correct answer choice suggests that the three women enjoyed support of the labor from a certain period until now, and we don't whether they enjoy the same support from here on.

Would a simple present tense made much more sense in the present context?

Thanking you in advance

rgds

Dheeraj

either tense would make sense.
you've summarized these tenses accurately, so just consider each of the two situations; both of them make sense.
the gmat will not force you to decide between two things that are both correct, so, if you face this kind of situation on the exam, look elsewhere.

[thanghnvn]

most of the time, I see that "noun+by+noun" is INCORRECT.

anyone know "noun+by+noun" is correct, pls, tell me. thank you.

normally, noun+preposition+noun is an idiom. but I never see "by" in that pattern.

[tim]

Can you give some concrete examples here? I find that you often over-generalize things to the point that your abstractions are almost meaningless in terms of studying for the GMAT. If you can correct this issue you may be able to increase your score by leaps and bounds. (See what I did there?) :)