Daily Review on sentence correction 12/7

eshopaholic

10/31

the last day of October


Keeping a low productivity these days, sort of getting tired with it.   I can't concentrate for a long time, easily distracted.


instead, designers of everything from cars to computer monitors have adopted a cornerless style of smooth surfaces and curves that is more ergonomic, conforming to the shape of the body rather than flaunting shape for
its own sake.


一个代词可以指代多个名词的时候,优先指代离它近的那个名
词


they指代复数名词必须清楚单一，有多个复数名词时，尽量避免使用代词指代，以防
止歧义。


As is the case with traditional pharmacies, prescriptions are the cornerstone of a successful
on-line drugstore


not so much that… as that…

eshopaholic

11/1


they denounce big government, saying government is doing too much and has become too powerful, while at the same time supporting many specific government programs.

entail doing sth


divide over: if people divide over sth or if sth divides them, it causes strong disagreement between them.

Since 1990 the global economy has grown more than it did during the 10,000 years from the beginning of agriculture

GWD-7   4 WRONG

eshopaholic

11/2

Read Feifei's  combinations and permutations.  one interesting question,  a complicated expression is employed;  but thinking it in a different way, one can tell the answer immediately.   One variable seems important but virtually unrelated.

GWD - 8    3 wrong


SC  notes

eshopaholic

11/3

gwd-9  6 wrong

eshopaholic

11/4

gwd-10  3 wrong


have to prepare for toefl

eshopaholic

11/5

worked on toefl


feel ill about the TOEFL reading passages.  They are wordy and inexplicit, compared to GMAT RC.  you may identify some GMAT grammar mistakes in it.   guess I've adopted an obsession with SENTENCE  CORRECTION.


To succeed is to know whose ass to kiss and when.

eshopaholic

11/6

TOEFL

GWD-11   6 wrong

I need to be more strict with myself.

eshopaholic

11/7

attended a wedding party,  had my hair cut
GWD-12  3 wrong


All on account of a ridiculous error

Illness caught him inevitably on account of over work.

He was in bond on account of bribe.

The match was postponed on account of weather.

eshopaholic

11/8

mainly worked on TOEFL

GWD-13  4 or 3 wrong

The irony is that I repeated all the mistakes in the same way.   MISTAKE: redundency

Only loser complains about failure and bad luck, laying blame everyplace but where it belongs -- oneself.

The real test is how you handle the failure.

eshopaholic

11/9

Decent man tends to act like rat/asshole.