Hi everyone,

I took my GMAT test today, didn't perform too well, and I am planning on taking it again on a later date. I remember one rule that was tested on today's GMAT exam.

I know that I can't post the actual question and frankly, I don't completely remember it either but I do remember that whether you got it right or not hinged on one particular rule, namely, the usage of whereby, hence and for.

The general sentence structure of the choices were:

a) X; whereby, Y
b) X; hence, Y
c) X, for Y

I want to make it clear that the above choices were the ones left after elimination and the Xs and Ys in the answer choices were identical/the same. I understand that this might be a little ambiguous to explain. Therefore, I request you to provide examples and illustrate in which situations which of the above forms would work better/would be considered correct and in which situations which of the above forms would be considered incorrect.

In advance, Thanks for your help!

Here's an old post of Ron's discussing whereby:
use-of-in-which-and-whereby-t3326.html

"Hence" is an adverb meaning "as a consequence" or "in the future" and synonyms would be "therefore" and "consequently". For example:
My GMAT preparations were poor; hence, I scored a 200.

"for" is hard to say much about without knowing more about the sentence. A sample sentence would be "The Eskimos live in igloos for protection from the wind."

Hope this helps!

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Jamie Nelson
ManhattanGMAT Instructor