Product Description

Manhattan GMAT's Foundations of Verbal provides a refresher of the basic verbal concepts tested on the GMAT. Designed to be user-friendly for all students, this book provides easy-to-follow explanations of fundamental concepts and step-by-step application of these concepts to examples. It’s an invaluable resource for students who want to cement their understanding of basic principles such as grammar, logic, and reading, while building core verbal skills for the GMAT.

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Chapter by Chapter

Part I: Sentence Correction

1. WORDS & SENTENCES

What Is Tested, Listening to Your Ear versus Learning Grammar, The Answer to the Question

2. NOUNS, PRONOUNS, ADJECTIVES

Nouns, Ways to Spot Nouns, Categories of Nouns, Singular and Plural, Pronouns, Categories of Pronouns, Antecedents, A Special Note About the Pronoun "One," Making Flashcards, Adjectives, Categories of Adjectives, Pronoun Errors Related to Adjectives, Absolute Adjectives

3. VERBS & ADVERBS

Verbs, Categories of Verbs, Gerunds, Infinitives, Subject-Verb Agreement, "Has/Have" Verbs, "Had" Verbs, Adverbs, Adverbs Modifying Adjectives and Other Adverbs, Adverb Errors on the GMAT, Adverbial Phrases

4. PREPOSITIONS, CONJUNCTIONS, MIXED DRILLS

Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases, Prepositions Separating Subjects and Verbs, Ending a Sentence with a Preposition, Conjunctions, Coordinating Conjunctions, Correlative Conjunctions, Subordinating Conjunctions

5. SUBJECT/PREDICATE, FRAGMENTS & RUN-ONS, PUNCTUATION

How Sentences Are Constructed, Subjects and Predicates, Sentence Fragments and Run-On Sentences, Punctuation, The Colon, The Semicolon, Dashes

6. MODIFIERS, PARALLELISM, COMPARISONS

Modifiers, Introductory Modifiers or "Warmups," That, Who, When, and Where, Parallelism and Comparisons, Phrases Beginning with "That" and "When"

7. IDIOMS, SUBJUNCTIVE, WRAP-UP

Idioms, List of Common GMAT Idioms, The Subjunctive, Answers to Pop Quizzes, Sentence Correction Wrap-Up, Now Go and Do Likewise

Part II: Critical Reasoning

8. ARGUMENTS & CONCLUSIONS

Valid Arguments Versus Sound Arguments, The Structure of Arguments, Getting Rid of Extras

9. PATTERNS & FLAWS

How GMAT Critical Reasoning is Unlike Real-World Decision Making, Identifying Patterns in Arguments, Logical Flaws on the GMAT, Gaps in Critical Reasoning Arguments, Gaps Related to Conclusions

10. DIAGRAMS

Introduction to Argument Diagramming, Decoding the Question Stem

11. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

Putting It All Together, A Detailed Look at the First 5 Critical Reasoning Problems in the Official Guide

Part III: Reading Comprehension

12. PHASES OF READING COMPREHENSION

Why GMAT Reading Comprehension is Hard, Kill the "Gist," The Phases of Reading Comprehension, Practicing the Four Phases of Reading Comprehension

13. MAIN IDEAS & DIFFICULT INFORMATION

What is a Main Idea?, Organizing Difficult Information

14. INFERENCES & IMPROVING YOUR READING

Inference Questions, Improving Your Reading in General, How to Study from the Official Guide

Part IV: Vocabulary & RC Idioms for GMAT Verbal

15. VOCABULARY & RC IDIOMS

Why Learn Vocabulary for the GMAT?, How to Learn Vocabulary for the GMAT, Vocabulary List for the GMAT, RC Idioms for the GMAT

APPENDIX: HELPFUL HINTS FOR INDIAN SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH

About the Author

In the last decade, Manhattan GMAT has grown from a single, dedicated tutor to a major test prep company with locations across the country. Our philosophy is simple: We aim to help students achieve their goals by providing the best curriculum and the highest-quality instructors in the industry. Manhattan GMAT hires fewer than 1 in 10 qualified applicants for its teaching positions, ensuring every instructor has years of experience and a 99th percentile score. So you can trust our books are developed by the very best.