Praise, respect and salute to GMAT Ninja. Got all the answers right.
@rejoicingGrace Жыл бұрын
The best GMAT SC series ever I must say! I love the old series, but this new one is more efficient. One question: for the last chemist question, I agree that (A) is the best for its nice parallel between "a critique" and "a vision," but I was hesitant about it for the phrasing "all chemistry since Robert Boyle." Because we need to be really literal in the SC world, this phrasing "all knowledge of a specific field since a person" looks weird to me. Isn't another phrasing "all chemistry developed/ formed/ observed by chemists since RB" or "all chemists since RB" better? (I am just being curious here since I know this phrasing is not the decision factor. 😄)
@rahuldhakne8577 Жыл бұрын
Half the time spent on the question would be to understand that statement. This language never fails to surprise me, in the wrong way.
@parthadlakha16412 жыл бұрын
At @3:09 already liking how you hold your marker. It’s in a way that your hand doesn’t obstruct the viewer’s view of the content. good!
@tarot_by_prernaa Жыл бұрын
Perfect lecture. I understood everything perfectly and got better. clarity. Thank you ma'am
@vrngoradia8 ай бұрын
Why did we ignore the preposition after the 'and' i.e 'after' and directly started to look at 'they'? How do i identify to which part of the sentence i need to apply parallelism?
@GMATNinjaTutoring8 ай бұрын
Dana explains why she didn't consider the "after some preliminary air drying or sun drying" and skipped to the "they are laid..." in the video starting at about 13:30. As she says, when we're looking at parallelism, we need to think about the key components that the author is trying to list. In this case, that's the components of the most extensively used method of building houses using mud or clay bricks. Check out that part of the video, and please feel free to ask any further questions if that doesn't fully answer your questions!
@tanvi4712 жыл бұрын
How to say if verb+ing is acting as a modifier or a noun?
@FightforJustice15 Жыл бұрын
Meaning of the sentence will guide you. Example- "Running is Fun". Here "Running" is acting as a Noun.
@MokshaaSharma Жыл бұрын
2nd Question- why have we checked parallelism after "has been" - shouldnt we check parallelism after the keyword. "but" . That is "but he most extensively used method". So we check whether "the most extensively used method" is parallel to " they are laid/to lay them"
@GMATNinjaTutoring Жыл бұрын
The "but" in question 2 is just used to connect two clauses. Consider this example: "I would like to bake a fluffy cake, but my creations always emerge from the oven with brick-like qualities." Here, we have one subject verb pair ("I" and ""would like") in the first clause, and another pair ("creations" and "emerge") in the second clause. Because the "but" is just used as a conjunction between clauses, we're not really looking for strict parallelism as we would with a list within a sentence. Similarly, the "but" in question 2 separates two clauses: before the but, we have a subject of "several ways" and a verb of "are," and after we have a new subject of "method" and a new verb of "has been." There's nothing more that's worth investigating with the "but," since it's just a conjunction. The "and," on the other hand, separates the pieces of a list, so that's why we need to look for parallelism there. (C) gives us a really nice parallel structure with "to form" and "to lay." I hope that helps!
@shifalikawatra1989 Жыл бұрын
A question here in,, in Q1 when you choose option C and say that act is a verb and is parallel to verb rise it makes sense to choose option C and Acting is a modifier in a sentence where there is no modifier earlier in the sentence and hence D is not chosen but i would like to mention that the acting modifier has another modifier- protecting the later part of the sentence.. why wasnt that considered?
@coolasme979 ай бұрын
Which video should I watch so that I'm able to differentiate between verbs, modifiers and nouns? I'm having trouble identifying each of them.
@GMATNinjaTutoring9 ай бұрын
It's not a video, but you could start with the articles linked below. They should help you differentiate between verbs, modifiers, and nouns when it comes to -ing and -ed words. I hope that helps! -ing words article: gmatclub.com/forum/experts-topic-of-the-week-that-ing-word-probably-isn-t-a-239780.html -ed words article: gmatclub.com/forum/experts-topic-of-the-week-5-15-17-fun-with-ed-words-240280.html
@coolasme979 ай бұрын
@@GMATNinjaTutoring Thank you so much! Deeply touched by your quick responses!
@vidhi67789 ай бұрын
In third question, don't you think "and also" is redundant ?
@austinmutwiri89972 жыл бұрын
Last question. Option (B) Isn't the 'his envisioning' parallel to 'his early experiments'? Using this parallelism, will the meaning be clear?
@GMATNinjaTutoring2 жыл бұрын
Great question! While placing "his envisioning" parallel to "his early experiments" might clear up the pronoun issue, it creates a different problem with meaning in the sentence. The stem would end with "Humphry Davy presented the results of..." which doesn't make any sense with that second leg: "Humphry Davy presented the results of... his envisioning of a new chemistry." Huh? It makes much more sense for "a critique" to be parallel with "a vision," as we see in (A). Stay tuned for a full video on meaning and parallelism, which will be coming soon!
@MokshaaSharma Жыл бұрын
Hey Team, Thanks for the insightful lecture. However in the last question- how do you exactly classify a modifier (like envisioning in option E )
@GMATNinjaTutoring Жыл бұрын
Glad that you're enjoying the series, Mokshaa! Sorry for the slow response. Words ending in "-ing" can do several different things in a sentence. Check out the following video and article to learn how to work with "-ing" words on the GMAT: Video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNOUo71kxpvLp6s.html Article: gmatclub.com/forum/experts-topic-of-the-week-that-ing-word-probably-isn-t-a-239780.html I hope that helps a bit!
@apoorvsinha5529 Жыл бұрын
in the last question in option B/D is the usage of "and also" different from the usage of "and"? kindly clarify.
@shriyajajula5478 Жыл бұрын
Hi, thank you so much for your amazing videos. I am facing troubles identifying verbs, modifiers or nouns. Like on the last question envisioning would be a verb according to me but it turns that it's a noun. It would be great if you could elaborate on this. Thank you in advance for your reply.
@this_Is_n0_One Жыл бұрын
Yes same doubt i have
@tanvi4712 жыл бұрын
BUt "building" can be parallel to "acting" How to eliminate that?
@aliyusuf3256 Жыл бұрын
I might be wrong, but I think because we have "and act/acting as a buffer", the key is to ask what could act as a buffer, and in this case clearly it is the breakwater. This means if we have "and act/acting as a buffer", the thing that needs to be parallel to act/acting needs to be after the idea of the breakwater has been introduced so it can also be something related to the breakwater. Another way to prove this more mechanically, is ask yourself if what you think could be parallel was made the second item in the list and the second item became the first, does it make sense. In the case for "building" as a possible parallel, the second item in the list as the first would read "The Army Corps of Engineers proposed acting as a buffer and building parallel to shore...." which clearly makes no sense
@gdppwow10 ай бұрын
Hey guys great videos out there, anyways I have a doubt, in last question option E, can’t we say that critiquing is common to both the phrases before and after as well as, so by that logic the2nd phrase would be correctly stating “critiquing his own….” Parallel with first “critiquing all the chemistry”. Please help, thank you
@TRInternet Жыл бұрын
The dinosaur lived, ate and exploded. What a tragic day it must have been.
@GMATNinjaTutoring Жыл бұрын
Poor dino.😔But at least it had a final meal?
@avishekkumar749 Жыл бұрын
In last question --Can option B be eliminated on the basis of pronoun "his" over option A on the ground of ambiguous pronoun?
@traviswilliams7746 Жыл бұрын
"his" is possessive, and acts as an adjective, not a pronoun.
@karandhanak6015 Жыл бұрын
Can noun and pronoun across AND be considered as parallel items?
@GMATNinjaTutoring Жыл бұрын
Sorry for the slow response, Karan! Yes, a noun can be parallel to a pronoun. Consider this sentence: "The only things my cat loves are tuna, milk, and herself." Here, the pronoun "herself" is parallel to the nouns "tuna" and "milk." All of these items are performing the same function in the sentence -- they're things that my self-centered cat loves. ;) I hope that helps!
@sahilbisht1875 Жыл бұрын
In q2 how forming is a noun not a verb?
@GMATNinjaTutoring Жыл бұрын
For an "-ing" word to act as a verb, it needs to come with some form of "to be." For example, we could write "He is swimming" or "They were hiking". If you remove the "is" or the "were" from these examples, you can see that you no longer have a full verb: "He swimming" and "They hiking" simply don't work. For much more on how to determine the function of "-ing" words, check out this video (starting at the 2 minute mark): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNOUo71kxpvLp6s.html. I hope that helps a bit, and please accept our apologies for our slow response!