PREPSC:Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act

[lawrencewwh]

Section 301 of the 1988 Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act enables the United States Trade Representative to single out a country as an unfair trader, begin trade negotiations with that country, and, if the negotiations do not conclude by the United States government's being satisfied, to impose sanctions.
A. by the United States government's being satisfied, to impose
B. by the United States government's satisfaction, impose
C. with the United States government's being satisfied, imposing
D. to the United States government's satisfaction, impose
E. to the United States government's satisfaction, imposing

I chose B,but the answer is D,
what's the difference between conclude to & conclude by ?

thanks in advance.

[stock.mojo11]

Section 301 of the 1988 Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act enables the United States Trade Representative to single out a country as an unfair trader, begin trade negotiations with that country, and, if the negotiations do not conclude by the United States government's being satisfied, to impose sanctions.
A. by the United States government's being satisfied, to impose
B. by the United States government's satisfaction, impose
C. with the United States government's being satisfied, imposing
D. to the United States government's satisfaction, impose
E. to the United States government's satisfaction, imposing

I chose B,but the answer is D,
what's the difference between conclude to & conclude by ?

thanks in advance.

Would you be kind enough to underline the SC Questions? It saves time for those who are trying to answer your Q.

I will take a shot.

Conclude by signifies a time

The event concluded by 3 pm Friday.

Conclude to signifies a condition as it did in this sentence.

[StaceyKoprince]

This is one of those annoying idioms - you're just supposed to memorize / know it.

The idiom is <do something> to <somebody's> satisfaction.

Is this actually from GMATPrep? I haven't seen this idiom tested before on an official question.

[mobenny]

Is there any science to idioms or any particular strategy to studying them. Or, should you just memorize as many idioms as possible?

Thanks,

Moses

[RonPurewal]

Is there any science to idioms or any particular strategy to studying them. Or, should you just memorize as many idioms as possible?

unfortunately, the latter.

an "idiom", by definition, is a language rule that is still binding even though there is no logical reason for it.
some idioms are downright illogical. for instance, it would make much more logical sense to say "break up FROM your girlfriend" than to say "break up WITH your girlfriend", but the latter is correct and the former is incorrect by idiomatic rules.

the word "idiom" itself comes from the word root "idio-", which means "unique, spontaneous, without rules or known genesis". so, there you go.

[mobenny]

Thanks ... I was thinking that Idiom came from the word idiot. But, it is good to know that I just have to memorize as many as I can cram in my brain.

Thanks again!

Moses

[Ben Ku]

i'm glad it helped!

[arnabgangully]

HI BEN,

please provide me with the List of IDIOMS that are important and generally asked in GMAT or the source from where i can study the list of IDIOMS ,the lengthier the list the better it is. :)

[jlucero]

We have 197 common GMAT idioms in our (shameless sales pitch) Sentence Correction Guide:

http://www.amazon.com/Sentence-Correcti ... attan+gmat

This is the list that I'm always referring students to, so I haven't spent too much time looking for other resources, but I found several websites by Googling "common GMAT idioms".

Hope that helps.

[sharmakapil67]

Hi Instructors,

Please help me to understand between option D & E

[RonPurewal]

Hi Instructors,

Please help me to understand between option D & E

single..., begin..., AND
(D) impose
(E) imposing
You can probably tell which one is right.

[sharmakapil67]

thanks RON

[ratheesh2306]

Hi instructors,
What is the difference between IMPOSE in D and IMPOSING in E?

[RonPurewal]

The purpose of this sentence is to describe 3 things that the US can do under this trade act.**

"Impose"/"imposing" is the third thing in this list. One of these is parallel to the other two things in the list. The other one isn't.

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**When you finished reading the original sentence, it should have been 100% crystal clear that you were looking at a list of 3 actions. If that was not 100% clear, then you aren't reading the original sentence effectively -- meaning, in turn, that you won't be able to understand how the sentence should be written!

Remember:

* When you read the original sentence, read ONLY for meaning. Do not try to "hunt" for errors; leave that to the answer choices.

* You should understand EXACTLY what the sentence means.
- If there's a description, you should know exactly what it's supposed to describe.
- If there's a verb/action, you should know exactly who or what performs that action.
- If anything is in parallel to anything else (like the 3 actions in this sentence), you should know what things are parallel.
Etc.

If anything at all is unclear about the meaning/context, DO NOT go to the answer choices until you've resolved it. If you have to read the sentence several times, then read the sentence several times.

[eggpain24]

as per parallelism，

the choice A is incorrect

we cannot have“to do，do，and to do”

Please clarify，ron
Thank you~