When working with overseas clients

[RonPurewal]

Er,do you mean that "Global managers working with overseas clients find an understanding of cultural norms to be as important as an grasping the pivotal business issues." is correct?

I'm not sure why you hate this construction so much. Perhaps you can elaborate.

Yes, that sentence is fine, other than "an grasping" (which is presumably a typo).
For optimal parallelism, the two constructions should be either
an understanding ... a grasp
or
understanding ... grasping.

[Tadashi]

Thanks.
Yes a typo.

I am not hating that "find...to be", haha. Actually I am not familiar with that structure. Seldom do i see a verb being used in this way.

Can you give me more examples?

maybe "think" & "consider"

1.think a to be b & think a b
2.consider a to be b & consider a b

please confirm ?

thanks.
I am now trying to love that structure. : )
Tadashi.

[RonPurewal]

Thanks.
Yes a typo.

I am not hating that "find...to be", haha. Actually I am not familiar with that structure. Seldom do i see a verb being used in this way.

Can you give me more examples?

maybe "think" & "consider"

1.think a to be b & think a b
2.consider a to be b & consider a b

please confirm ?

thanks.
I am now trying to love that structure. : )
Tadashi.

1/
I've never seen "think(s) A to be B".
The only form in which I've ever seen this is the passive: A is thought to be B"”a construction that I see fairly regularly.

2/
Both of these are fine.
The "to be" is normally used if (a) the sentence is ambiguous without it, or (b) the sentence is really, really long, to such an extent that "to be" just makes it easier to read.

[Tadashi]

really happy to know that!
very helpful
i should learn it by heart.

last question, what about the word:assume?
do we have "assume a b" or "assume a to be b"

I've looked it up in the online webster dictionary but i don't think I find what I want.

[RonPurewal]

really happy to know that!
very helpful
i should learn it by heart.

last question, what about the word:assume?
do we have "assume a b" or "assume a to be b"

I've looked it up in the online webster dictionary but i don't think I find what I want.

"Assume" works like "think".
The only form in which you'll see this is the passive: A is assumed to be B. (You'll never see "assume A B", except perhaps in poetic language.)

You probably know this already, but you're much more likely to see either of these words in the structure "PERSON thinks/assumes that A is B".

[Tadashi]

Really really helpful.
Thank you again
Tadashi.

[RonPurewal]

You're welcome.

Your taking time to post "thanks" regularly is appreciated, too. That doesn't happen around here as much as it could.

[vili1108]

So for choice E, besides "an understanding" not parallel with "grasping", is there anything else is wrong from the meaning stand point?

I can probably assume that " at least as important as" is better than " to be equally important"? It seems " to be " sounds like maybe, something not affirmative as other choices usually preferred by Gmat?

Thanks

[RonPurewal]

So for choice E, besides "an understanding" not parallel with "grasping", is there anything else is wrong from the meaning stand point?

not so much.

It seems " to be " sounds like maybe, something not affirmative

there is nothing wrong with 'to be'.

on the other hand, there is no such thing as 'equally [adjective/adverb] as'.
the following are legitimate:
'X is as important as Y'
'X and Y are equally important'

[RonPurewal]

usually preferred by Gmat?

that red thing...
...is not a thing.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS 'PREFERRED'.

EVERYTHING that's tested in SC will be either...
...1/ correct vs. incorrect
or...
...2/ objectively superior vs. objectively inferior.

#1 needs no explanation, of course.
#2 covers things like parallelism, modifier placement, wordiness/efficiency, etc. note that these are NOT arbitrary 'preferences'; they are OBJECTIVE judgments. (these things are objectively more parallel than those things... this phrase is objectively more wordy / less efficient than that one ... etc.)

(also, there's the simple reality of the test: this is a very high-stakes exam that must be administered without controversy to hundreds of thousands of highly competitive professional students per year. needless to say, if any of the problems relied on 'preferences'... the test would fail badly at that job.)

if you think SC involves 'preferences', you're introducing complexity where none actually exists. don't.
keep simple things simple!

[vili1108]

Thanks Ron! Your analogous examples are the best!

I have some hard time deciding choices with "each of which" and "with which" set after comma act as a modifier, wonder if you can kindly give a few examples on those?

Thanks!

[RonPurewal]

Thanks Ron! Your analogous examples are the best!

you're welcome.

I have some hard time deciding choices with "each of which" and "with which" set after comma act as a modifier, wonder if you can kindly give a few examples on those?

Thanks!

neither of these constructions is even remotely related to the problem at hand, so i'm guessing you accidentally posted this in the wrong thread.

[charmanineW924]

I Find that "they" in B is wrong ,because the pluralo noun here is cultural norms. I just want to know if there is any other problems in choice B.

[RonPurewal]

I Find that "they" in B is wrong ,because the pluralo noun here is cultural norms.

the pronoun is incorrect, but it's incorrect because 'manager' is singular.

if the plural 'managers' were present, the pronoun would be fine. (the presence of other plural nouns would not pose a problem.)

[RonPurewal]

I just want to know if there is any other problems in choice B.

this is also a reason to eliminate:
'of equal importance...' --> OBJECTIVELY WORSE
'as important...' --> OBJECTIVELY BETTER

remember—you should NEVER try to judge whether individual choices are 'wordy'. however, if there is an easy COMPARATIVE judgment, then by all means you can use it.
i wrote about this here:
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/foru ... 31594.html