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for making & in order to make

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vikram4689
 Post subject: for making & in order to make
 Post Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:55 pm 
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What is the difference b/w for making and in order to make. These are in SC Flash Cards and in both the case "in order to" is correct

1 ) He donated a kidney so his wife could live;
for making the incision, the doctors shaved
his stomach.

CORRECT:
He donated a kidney so that his wife could
live; to make the incision, the doctors shaved his stomach.

2) The highly‐advanced robot is proficient both in
Japanese and English – and there is an expectation
by us that the robot’s maker should produce the
new model only in limited quantities for
maintaining the product’s cachet.

CORRECT :
The highly-advanced robot is proficient in both Japanese and
English – and we expect that the robot’s maker will produce the new model only in limited quantities in order to maintain the product’s cachet.
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tim
 Post subject: Re: for making & in order to make
 Post Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:50 am 
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the best thing here is just to consider this an idiom and memorize it. you do X in order to do Y; you do not do X for doing Y..

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aps_asks
 Post subject: Re: for making & in order to make
 Post Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:29 pm 
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Hi Tim/Ron,

Is was a parallel marker?

I could not find it in the MGMAT SC Book.

Please let me know your comments
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 Post subject: Re: for making & in order to make
 Post Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:52 pm 
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Hi Instructors ,

I have one more question... Sorry for posting it here.

For the idiom so that

Can there be words present between so and that ?

i.e. so.......that

Please let me know your comments.
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tim
 Post subject: Re: for making & in order to make
 Post Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 7:11 pm 
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"was" is not a parallel marker. parallel markers are words that, by their very nature, indicate that two or more similar words or phrases are tied together..

"so" and "that" almost always require words in between them on the GMAT..

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