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错题：4 疑惑：1&6 错题：4 According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by Association of American Medical College, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas. minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing why OE attractive why 排除OA 我根据比较对象对等原则，前面是are more likely，后面的other graduates也应该加are才对 否则就是对比错误，as first part of comparison is possibility, but the 2nd part of comparison is graduates themselves 之前Ron举的例子 the likelihood V.S. the thing that actually happens. ❌ · I am more likely to eat cheese than my wife does/will/can --> nonsense. OG例子 Many teenagers undergo stress, but results of a recent study indicate that the patterns of stress that girls experience are more likely to result in depression than are those that boys experience. boys' stress patterns do ü why in the sentence above 不能比但在OA中可以比? According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by Association of American Medical College,minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as 【?️are】other graduates to plan on practicing in socioeconomically deprived areas. the patterns of stress that girls experience are more likely to result in depression than are those that boys experience. = 换成和该题目一样的语序 the patterns of stress that girls experience are more likely than are those that boys experience to result in depression boys' stress patterns do ü whats their difference? Ron说的这个point * the likelihood V.S. the thing that actually happens. ❌ I am more likely to eat cheese than my wife does/will/can --> nonsense. 但是！ * the likelihood V.S. the likelihood ✅ I am more likely to eat cheese than my wife I am more likely to eat cheese than my wife is --> both correct. Ron举的这个例子是为了说明为什么boys' stress patterns do ❌ Many teenagers undergo stress, but results of a recent study indicate that the patterns of stress that girls experience are more likely to result in depression than are those that boys experience. boys' stress patterns do 但是在本题中 According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by Association of American Medical College,minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as 【?️are】other graduates to plan on practicing in socioeconomically deprived areas. 属于* the likelihood V.S. the likelihood —> acceptable 人家只是妹有helping verb Ron说的the likelihood V.S. the thing that actually happens 指的是helping verbs之间的不合理对比 are 和 do 我真厉害XD why OE ❌ OE：minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas. Idiom more likely to do sth ✅ more likely in doing sth ❌ Ron: "likely" must be used with an infinitive. the gmat writers have camouflaged this poor idiomatic usage behind not only lots of noise (the words between "likely" and "in"), but also a second, correct idiom (the one you singled out).
that's tough. e.g.,
My team is more likely ____ than your team. (or, My team is more likely than your team _____.)
• to win?
• in winning? incidentally, a correct sentence can contain both 'likely' and 'in X'... but only as separate constructions.
e.g.,
Car accidents are especially likely in bad weather.
note that this sentence could just as well be written as In bad weather, car accidents are especially likely.
we're NOT saying that accidents are likely to do anything; we're just saying that they are likely. (it would clearly be nonsense to say that a PERSON 'is likely'. therefore, choice A is nonsense.)
(and of course you can have all three: Drivers are especially likely to have accidents in bad weather.) why dont we need helping verb [are]? helping verb is only needed when: 1. to avoid ambiguity james is more likely to meet with thomas than lydia
--> unacceptable, because there are two meanings.
in this case, you have to add a helping word to dispel the ambiguity:
james is more likely to meet with thomas than is lydia (meaning #1)
james is more likely to meet with thomas than with lydia (meaning #2)
but
james is more likely to drive to work than lydia
you don't need "is" here, since this sentence can only mean one thing. (it's not wrong to include "is" -- just not necessary.) 2. to signify tense change in this case, no tense change, no ambiguity —— 关于noun 和 noun的比较 It is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates will plan to practice... than other graduates. This sentence doesn't work.
If the second part of the comparison is just "other graduates", then the first part clearly must be a noun; that noun can work in one of two ways.
1/
It can appear directly next to "than".
Harvard graduates who start companies are more likely to hire strangers than other graduates.
2/
It can be the subject of "is/are more likely".
Engineering graduates are more likely to earn high starting salaries than other graduates.
In case #2, the sentence would be better written with the comparison in one continuous piece (Engineering graduates are more likely than other graduates to earn high starting salaries), although the current #2 is not strictly wrong.
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In the sentence here, "4 times more likely" is buried in the middle of the clause It is ... that xxxx will happen, so the other half needs to be an entire statement that will parallel the statement that xxx will happen. — It is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates will plan to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas than to work for multinational pharmaceutical corporations.
The above sentence is incorrect, right? Although it looks very parallel.
对应上面店1/
No. This sentence is fine, for exactly the same reason as "reason #1" listed in my post above (link: post95689.html#p95689 ).
You've got the two parallel constructions flanking "than", so you're good.
In many cases, that's the best you can possibly do.
E.g., In New York City, more people walk than drive to work. --> "Walk" and "drive" are flanking "than", so you're good. (There's obviously no way to get "more" directly in front of "walk".)
idiom usage: Likely for (someone) to (verb)" "It is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates as for other graduates to plan to practice...
"Likely for (someone) to (verb)" isn't a thing. Once you've seen that, you've seen that; the issue has nothing to do with the comparison.
don’t break up that structure that is one of two parts being compared " and "It is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates than other graduates will plan to practice...", except memorise them as incorrect expressions one by one. If the sentence starts out with "It is more likely that...", then you can't break up the clause starting with "that", just as you wouldn't want to break up any other construction that is one of the two things being compared.
Unlike the idiom above, this one requires no knowledge beyond "don't break up stuff that shouldn't be broken up". acceptable: 1. It is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates will plan to practice... than that other graduates will. 2. It is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates will plan to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas than to work for multinational pharmaceutical corporations. idiom Is PLAN ON a correct idiom ?
it's in the correct choice, so, you already know the answer to this question.
疑惑：1&6 1. In Scotland, the number of wild salmon have been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting, by pollution, and by various other threats to the fish’s habitat.
A.number of wild salmon have been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting,
B.number of wild salmon is reduced because deep-sea and coastal netting is not controlled,
C.numbers of wild salmon has been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting,
D.wild salmon’s numbers are reduced by deep-sea and coastal netting that is not controlled,
E.wild salmon’s numbers have been reduced by uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting, DE split 感觉都像Fake split split 1: are reduced by V.S. have been reduced 做的时候I think both acceptable ❌ Ron： the present tense (e.g., "are reduced") is used for 2 things:
1/ GENERALITIES that are true regardless of the timeframe (Blood flows through veins and arteries)
2/ STATES or CONDITIONS (NOT events or actions!) that are true AT PRESENT (I am happy)
this present tense CANNOT be used for EVENTS or ACTIONS. if an event is happening right now, then you use "is/are __ing". (The factory is operating at reduced capacity because its machines are undergoing routine maintenance.)
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in general, it's a good idea to consider only MAJOR verb-tense issues. you absolutely will NOT need SUBTLE verb-tense differences to solve the problems.
this difference is pretty plain—"are reduced" is written in a tense that can NEVER be used for something like that (a single instance; an event). that's not "subtle". split 2: deep-sea and coastal netting that is not controlled V.S. uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting I think both acceptable, the latter is more concise 所以我选了E，but不确定whether is that a decision point or not Ron there's no reason to make this decision so difficult—it's perfectly straightforward as a COMPARISON between answer choices (= a 'beauty contest').
uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting --> FAR better
deep-sea and coastal netting that is not controlled --> FAR worse
this is not a matter of opinion; the difference is very clear and completely objective. the former is more efficient; the latter is less efficient.
6. Scholars who once thought Native American literatures were solely oral narratives recorded by missionaries or anthropologists now understand this body of work to consist of both oral literatures and the written works of Native American authors, who have been publishing since 1772. Scholars who once had thought of Native American literatures solely as oral narratives and in choice c,, had thought is a wrong verb tense because of no sign of past tense ^^ yes.
if the scholars' realization were also presented in a past timeframe, then that tense could work:
Last year, scholars who had long believed the principles of the xxxxxxx theory were shocked by the discovery of irrefutable counter-evidence. | 
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