The Sentence Correction Guide takes the guesswork out of grammar by presenting every major grammatical principle and minor grammatical point tested on the GMAT. Don’t be caught relying only on your ear; master the rules for correcting every GMAT sentence.
Each chapter builds comprehensive content understanding by providing rules, strategies, and in-depth examples of how the GMAT tests a given topic and how you can respond accurately and quickly. The Guide contains a total of 187 “In-Action” problems of increasing difficulty with detailed answer explanations. The content of the book is aligned to the latest Official Guides from GMAC (12th edition).
Chapter by Chapter
Part I: General
1. SENTENCE CORRECTION BASICS
Question Format, Best vs. Ideal, Splits and Re-Splits, Reading the Entire Sentence
2. GRAMMAR, MEANING, CONCISION
Choose/Place/Match Your Words, Redundancy
3. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
Fragments, Middlemen, Warmups, Additive Phrases, Collective Nouns, Quantity Words, Flipping
4. PARALLELISM
Parallel Markers, Structures, Idioms, Superficial Parallelism, Linking Verbs
5. PRONOUNS
Antecedent Existence, Meaning, Ambiguity, Agreement, Case, Third Person Personal Pronouns, Demonstratives
6. MODIFIERS
Adjectives, Adverbs, Noun Modifiers, Position Rules and Exceptions, Relative Pronouns, Subgroup Modifiers, Essential vs. Non-Essential Modifiers, Verb Modifiers, Use of Which
7. VERB TENSE, MOOD, & VOICE
Simple Tenses, Progressive Tenses (Present and Past), Tense Sequence, Subjunctive Mood (Hypothetical and Command), If/Then Voice (Active and Passive)
8. COMPARISONS
Like vs. As, Parallel Comparisons, Omitted Words, Comparative & Superlative Forms
9. IDIOMS
Spot-Extract-Replace, Idiom List (197 Entries)
10. ODDS & ENDS
Connecting Words, Connecting Punctuation, Quantity
PLUS: Official Guide Problem Matrixand Glossary of Grammatical Terms
Part II: Advanced
Includes separate chapters on numerous Advanced Sentence Correction topics, as well as additional practice problems.