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ashish.jere
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Post subject: are/is  Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:52 am |
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The Sports Medicine Programs of the Olympic Training Center, a complex where final tryouts are held for athletes representing the United States in the Olympics, is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation for international competition.
(A) is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation
(B) is geared to enhance the performance of athletes and to prepare them
(C) are geared to enhance athletes' performance and their preparation
(D) are geared toward the enhancement of athletes' performance and toward preparing them
(E) are geared toward enhancing the performance of athletes and preparing them
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ctrajaram
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:01 pm |
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Programs so use "are"
Down to C,D,E
geared toward something->idiomatic usage
E for parallelism
enhancing...and preparing
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:10 am |
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the above poster's summary is basically correct, although i'm not 100% sure that "geared to" is incorrect.
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by the way:
i smell a non-official problem.
if this problem is really FROM THE GMATPREP SOFTWARE, then please post a screen shot as proof. i would be astonished if this were really an official problem.
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ashish.jere
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:16 am |
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it is from GPREP, ron. you can take my word on that. anyways, i will post a screen shot soon. RonPurewal wrote: the above poster's summary is basically correct, although i'm not 100% sure that "geared to" is incorrect.
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i smell a non-official problem.
if this problem is really FROM THE GMATPREP SOFTWARE, then please post a screen shot as proof. i would be astonished if this were really an official problem.
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ashish.jere
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:28 am |
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I have the screen shot ready, ron. could you please let me know how to upload it?
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:26 am |
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Ron, I have another doubt in this. Is "toward" correct or is "towards" correct?
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ashish.jere
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:42 am |
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ganurag83 - Check this link. May clear your doubt. post7023.html? My question to Ron - what should really hint us in picking 'are'? Programs? It's very misguiding in this question. I went ahead and read like this - 'The SMP of the Olympic Training Center, a complex where final tryouts are held for athletes representing the United States in the Olympics, is blah blah blah'
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:52 am |
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can anyone tell me, how to attach screen shot of gmat prep
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RonPurewal
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:21 am |
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ganurag83 wrote: Ron, I have another doubt in this. Is "toward" correct or is "towards" correct? hmm? "towards" doesn't appear anywhere in this problem. do you have a different version of it? -- clearly "toward" is ok, since it appears in the correct answer.
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RonPurewal
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:24 am |
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ashish.jere wrote: My question to Ron - what should really hint us in picking 'are'? Programs?
It's very misguiding in this question. nope. if there is ONE thing in this question that is absolutely clear, it's the subject of that verb. "of the olympic training center" is ineligible, since it's a prepositional phrase (a type of modifier). "a complex where blah blah blah" is also ineligible, since it's a modifier. therefore, the subject is "sports medicine programs". 100% unambiguous. if you think there is an ambiguity here, then you should check out the material on "eliminating middlemen" in our sentence correction strategy guide and/or watch class 2 of our nine-session course (available online if you aren't located in a city where our live classes take place).
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RonPurewal
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:25 am |
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jitenderjain065 wrote: can anyone tell me, how to attach screen shot of gmat prep directions here post12965.html#p12965
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ashish.jere
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:35 am |
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thank you. RonPurewal wrote: ashish.jere wrote: My question to Ron - what should really hint us in picking 'are'? Programs?
It's very misguiding in this question. nope. if there is ONE thing in this question that is absolutely clear, it's the subject of that verb. "of the olympic training center" is ineligible, since it's a prepositional phrase (a type of modifier). "a complex where blah blah blah" is also ineligible, since it's a modifier. therefore, the subject is "sports medicine programs". 100% unambiguous. if you think there is an ambiguity here, then you should check out the material on "eliminating middlemen" in our sentence correction strategy guide and/or watch class 2 of our nine-session course (available online if you aren't located in a city where our live classes take place).
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RonPurewal
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:39 am |
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:28 pm |
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Ron, please can you explain why choice C is incorrect?
considering you mentioned "although i'm not 100% sure that "geared to" is incorrect"
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Post subject: Re: are/is Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:43 am |
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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"
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