GMAT Sentence Correction

UPDATE: You can find this blog and others about idioms in our new GMAT Idiom eBook! Sort out the bedeviling distinctions between these two words that confound many on GMAT Sentence Correction Start by attempting these two questions on your own.  I will discuss the solution later in the post. 1) Balancing the need for […]

Here are five practice SC problems, exploring this particular grammatical structure. Full explanations will appear at the end of the article.

This mistake is astonishingly common in spoken English, even among otherwise well-spoken people.  In the six Sentence Correction practice questions below, all the questions contain “due to.” Where is it used correctly and where is it wrong?   1) Elysium Field Construction planned to build a ten-story building the suburban downtown, but due to unstable bedrock […]

First, here are 8 GMAT Sentence Correction problems, each involving some kind of logical issue.   1) Napoleon entered Russia in June, 1812, with an army half a million strong, but leaving in December, 1812, with just less than 30,000 troops. (A) leaving in December, 1812, with just less (B) just left in December, 1812, […]

First of all, here are four challenging SC questions involving comparisons. What could be better than SC questions about comparisons? (I couldn’t resist starting off a blog about comparisons with a comparison!)

Sometimes the key in sentence correction is just a matter of knowing what to look for. Knowing how to spot parallelism and knowing when it will occur will help you to narrow in on what might be wrong in the sentence. This week’s video will cover the basics of parallelism: what it is, where and […]

Welcome back! Before we get started, take a moment to review Monday’s Sentence Correction question. Question In the middle of the 19th century, mathematician turned computer scientist Ada Lovelace aided Charles Babbage by developing the first computer algorithm, a breakthrough that ushered in the computer age, leading to machines capable of executing functions far more […]

Below is a question that is both good news and bad news if you see one like it test day. First off, you are doing very well to see such a difficult question, because of the computer-adapted nature of the test. The bad news: you might burn up a lot of time and not even […]

Example: If medical researchers are correct, then the human microbiome, made up of the microorganisms in our body, may hold the cure to diseases that have long plagued humanity, amounting to a major oversight in Western medicine that has, until recently, all but ignored any such role of the microbiome. Choose the option that best […]

Hello! 🙂 This week, I’m sharing another sentence correction tip involving splits: not the splits that professional gymnasts perform with elegance, but the kind you do with your GMAT answer choices! And as usual, here’s a still of this week’s board work: See you next week!  

First, four SC questions exploring this theme. 1) Neither the late 18th century composers, such as Mozart or Haydn, nor Beethoven, as well as Schubert in the early 19th century, were known to compose in the suite format, so popular in the Baroque period. (A) were known to compose (B) were known in composing (C) […]

Diction is one of the eight major areas of GMAT Sentence Correction.  Here are six new questions to practice on this topic. 1) The team of research scientists will not know whether the procedure for reversing damage to individual genes was successful if the scientists do not get access to the advanced optical technology at the […]

First, three challenging GMAT Sentence Correction practice problems. 1) Cosimo de’ Medici, a great patron of the arts, sponsoring two of  Donatello’s most famous works, statues of David and Judith, while supporting Brunelleschi to complete the dome of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, which is known to be “Duomo.”  (A) Cosimo de’ Medici, […]

First, three practice questions. 1) From a cache of burnt bones, including bone tools, found in South Africa, Homo erectus had estimated control of fire 700,000 years ago, although other hominid groups might have even mastered fire earlier. (A) Homo erectus had estimated control of fire 700,000 years ago, although other hominid groups might have […]

1) Even-toed ungulates, including pigs, cattle, goats, and sheep, and odd-toed ungulates, such as horses and donkeys, account for all the mammals domesticated for agricultural purposes. (A) including pigs, cattle, goats, and sheep, and odd-toed ungulates, such as horses and donkeys, account for (B) including pigs, cattle, goats, and sheep, and odd-toed ungulates, including horses […]

Hello! 🙂 This week, another Magoosher right here at the office is asking a very important question: what is the difference between “to lie” and “to lay”? If you’re aiming for a high 700+ score on the GMAT, you’ll need to be able to answer this question and distinguish between these two tricky verbs. As […]