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Hi Forbes Thank you for your long reply. I do appreciate it. I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective. I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

Jay_zzz0 wrote: I believe these are GMAT sentence correction questions. I don't think they are trying to test your ability to use commas. Instead, these questions can test you on all aspects of grammar. It all depends on the question writer. Jeff Sackmann, a GMAT tutor, said in his blog...

I believe these are GMAT sentence correction questions. I don't think they are trying to test your ability to use commas. Instead, these questions can test you on all aspects of grammar. It all depends on the question writer. Jeff Sackmann, a GMAT tutor, said in his blog that most questions focus...

They are incorrect because they break the rules of English grammar. The idiom is to know better than . The word than is part of the expression. The words I had are followed by an -ing word. CJ

Well, when you see the home page, you see a lot of sections, eg here "General English grammar question" is for when you have problems with the grammar. "Vocabulary and idioms", when you don't understand a word or an expression, and so on... Now when you click on the section, you have a page...

Hi Miriam, Actually "had better" is NOT a modal verb. Some authors call it a "modal idiom" (The New Fowler's Modern English Usage edited by R.W. Burchfield), or a idiomatic modal. There are many English Grammar websites that talk about "had better" as a Modal Verb. For example: ...