First, some practice questions. 1) The spokeswoman for the national laboratory announced that, while the lab had been operating at a loss in the 1990s, it had become profitable in 2006, and would continue to yield high profits at least until 2025. (A) had been operating at a loss in the 1990s, it had become [...]
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Verb Forms on the GMAT Sentence Correction
First, a few practice Sentence Correction questions about verbs. 1) Next October, the commission’s delegation will visit the Prince of Westphalia, contributing the largest amounts to the commission over each of the last seven years. contributing having contributed who contributed who has contributed who had contributed 2) The Federal investigators at Stapleton Industries have failed [...]
Rhetorical Construction on the GMAT Sentence Correction
First, a few practice questions. 1) At the press conference, the CEO denied in the most strenuous terms that his corporation’s lawyers for the six charged senior officers they could provide undue favorable influence in the imminent embezzlement trials. (A) for the six charged senior officers they could provide (B) for the six senior charged [...]
Restructuring Magoosh Sentence Correction
At Magoosh, we are constantly looking for ways to make our product better. Recently, we have been making changes in the Sentence Correction portion of our product. Our SC lesson videos had been organized primarily by areas of grammar, but of course, the GMAT Sentence Correction questions are about much more than grammar. We recently [...]
Logical Predication on the GMAT Sentence Correction
First, four GMAT Sentence Correction questions exploring issues of Logical Predication. 1) Minerva Consulting has a budget about the same as the largest consulting firms in the state, like Cost Stonehouse or McKidney’s, but only twenty four in workforce, all of whom have advanced degrees. about the same as the largest consulting firms in the [...]
Parallelism on the GMAT Sentence Correction
First, a few practice questions. The answers and full explanations will be given at the end of this blog. 1) Simon Bolivar (1783 – 1830) is remembered in that he led the independence revolutions in several South American counties, like Venezuela and Bolivia, and for instilling the ideals of democracy across the continent. in that [...]
GMAT Idioms: Three Sophisticated Idioms
First, a few practice GMAT Sentence Correction questions for warm-up. 1) Had the United States allowed the California Republic to remain independent after the Bear Flag Revolt rather than annexing it with military force, this “California nation” might have become the wealthiest nation in North America. Had the United States allowed the California Republic to [...]
GMAT Idioms: Of Thinking and Knowing
First, a couple of Sentence Correction practice questions. 1) Organizers claimed that the rally for public health care drew close to half a million people, but the city officials estimated the amount of people at the rally to be less than 300,000. the amount of people at the rally to be less the number of [...]
Modifiers on the GMAT Sentence Correction
First a few GMAT Sentence Correction practice questions involving modifiers 1) Between 1892 and 1893, Claude Monet produced a series of paintings of the Rouen Cathedral, revised in his studio in 1894, and with the French public receiving it as an emblem of all that was noble about their history and customs. produced a series [...]
GMAT Idioms: Of Hope and Fear
These two verbs, to hope and to fear, are similar, not only in their focus on expectations for the future, but also in the large diversity of idioms they can take. In this post, I hope to exhaust the idioms for these two verbs. First of all, to hope, by itself, is an intransitive verb: [...]
