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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: are/is
 Post Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 7:34 am 
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willigetmylifeback wrote:
ramdev wrote:
Ron, please can you explain why choice C is incorrect?
considering you mentioned "although i'm not 100% sure that "geared to" is incorrect"


If we intend to mean AIM AT then we have to use "Geared Towards" it sound better to me than "Geared To"


"towards" is a british english word that is incorrect in american english; the proper american word is "toward".
(this is not something that will be tested, but it's useful to know if you're going to have professional correspondence with americans.)

i'm not sure whether "geared to" is incorrect in general; i'll wait on that judgment until i see more official evidence either way.
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willigetmylifeback
 Post subject: Re: are/is
 Post Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:17 am 
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RonPurewal wrote:
willigetmylifeback wrote:
ramdev wrote:
Ron, please can you explain why choice C is incorrect?
considering you mentioned "although i'm not 100% sure that "geared to" is incorrect"


If we intend to mean AIM AT then we have to use "Geared Towards" it sound better to me than "Geared To"


"towards" is a british english word that is incorrect in american english; the proper american word is "toward".
(this is not something that will be tested, but it's useful to know if you're going to have professional correspondence with americans.)

i'm not sure whether "geared to" is incorrect in general; i'll wait on that judgment until i see more official evidence either way.


Thanks for the reply once again Ron. But I have a following question:

Option C says :
(C) are geared to enhance athletes' performance and their preparation

Then I think we can reject option C because THEIR don't have a proper antecedent as " athletes' " is used as a possessive and can't be the antecedent of "their".

Am I right Ron?
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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: are/is
 Post Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:34 am 
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willigetmylifeback wrote:
Then I think we can reject option C because THEIR don't have a proper antecedent as " athletes' " is used as a possessive and can't be the antecedent of "their".

Am I right Ron?


no. possessive pronouns can refer to possessives.

more importantly, read this post:
post46683.html#p46683
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j.shirish
 Post subject: Re: are/is
 Post Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:23 pm 
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Hey ron ...
any update .. .i am just not able to figure out the basis for rejecting (C) here other than considering geared to as unidiomatic ...
thanks.
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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: are/is
 Post Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:56 am 
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j.shirish wrote:
Hey ron ...
any update .. .i am just not able to figure out the basis for rejecting (C) here other than considering geared to as unidiomatic ...
thanks.


that may be the only thing. fortunately, however, gmac has ceased using such idiomatic differences in official problems; see here:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... -the-gmac/
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