Speculation

by **Guest** Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:09 am

Hi,

Can we use speculation with may as in

There is a speculation that the stock market may fall this week. Is May redundant ?

thnx

by RA Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:47 am

I think "may" is redundant and should be replaced by "will".

by **RonPurewal** Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:06 am

i believe "will" is better, because the word "speculate" already conveys the essence of "may".

on a separate note, i don't think "speculation" should be preceded by "a"; it should just read "there is speculation".

do keep in mind that the gmat is usually VERY precise with language; for some reason, i find it somewhat unlikely that a real gmat sentence would start with "there is speculation". instead, it could probably identify the speculator, as in "experts have speculated that..."