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Doubt with IDioms

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deepak.yakkundi
 Post subject: Doubt with IDioms
 Post Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:48 pm 
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HI,

SC guide explains SECURE and WITH idioms as follows.

SECURE
RIGHT: Our authority is SECURE.
WRONG: We ARE SECURE ABOUT our authority.

Does this mean that SECURE should not be followed by anything?

WITH
RIGHT: The lions growled, WITH their fur STANDING on end.
WRONG: WITH only 25% of the student body, seniors get 50% of the resources.

I am unable to understand what MGMAT is trying to explain here.

Request some experts to explain the above idioms, especially the WITH idiom.
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deepak.yakkundi
 Post subject: Re: Doubt with IDioms
 Post Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:19 am 
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Request some experts to address this thread..

I had posted this quite a while back and i have my GMAT exam in 1.5 weeks.

Thanks,
Deepak
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tim
 Post subject: Re: Doubt with IDioms
 Post Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 6:37 am 
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ooh, yet another victim of your own sense of urgency. remember that when you reply to your own post your question gets bumped to the end of the line. also remember that we have office hours and private tutoring for the truly urgent questions; there are a lot of students using this free service, and when you post here, you have to accept the fact that it could take a while to get your answer..

1) "secure" can be followed by prepositions, just not "about". "with" is one that comes to mind..

2) The incorrect version makes it sound like the seniors are with 25% of the student body, when actually they comprise 25%. In other words the seniors ARE 25% of the student body, but the "with" makes it sound like they are alongside 25% of the student body..

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