It is not uncommon for test takers, when sloughing through the thicket of GMAT Sentence Correction questions to find themselves scratching their heads over a tricky little grammar conundrum known as  an absolute phrase. What exactly are absolute phrases you ask? Well, before we dive into definitions and...

Prepositions in English display a powerful diversity of uses. Your preposition knowledge will most certainly be tested in the GMAT. In previous preposition article, we talked about the proposition “against”.  Here, we will look, at the preposition “on”.   Prepositions on the GMAT A preposition must be followed by...

Prepositions in English display a powerful diversity of uses.  In previous preposition article, we talked about the proposition “for”.  Here, we will look, at the prepositions “against”.   Prepositions A preposition must be followed by a noun — or by something playing the role of a noun.   This latter...

“Fred wrote to Congress to complain about this policy nearly four months before Silvia ____________” What we want to say is — Fred wrote to Congress, and Silvia also wrote to Congress, but Fred did what he did before Silvia did what she did.  The question...

First, try these challenging GMAT Quantitative problems, all variations on a theme, as you will see. 1) Seven children — A, B, C, D, E, F, and G — are going to sit in seven chairs in a row.  The children C & F have to...

To start, consider these practice GMAT Sentence Correction questions. 1) The Senator’s warm recommendation of the popular Congressman seemed to many an implication that he will not see re-election to his current office. an implication that to make the implication to imply that as if implying to make implicit that 2) Five-star General John Pershing had such...

What does the GMAT Quantitative section test?  Math, of course.  As tautological as that may seem, there is a very subtle point here.  What exactly is math?   Mathematics Strange as it may seem, there is no generally accepted formal definition of the word mathematics.  Most of the...

Question #1: In the equation, can you divide both sides by x? Question #2: In the equation (x – 3)(x + 5) = (2x + 1)(x + 5), can you divide both sides by (x + 5)? Question #3: Question #4:   Dividing by a variable or by an algebraic expression The...

Prepositions in English display a powerful diversity of uses.  In previous preposition article, we talked about the proposition “of”.  Here, we will look, at the preposition “for.”   The preposition “for” The word “for” is a preposition.  This means, it must be followed by a noun — or...

Prepositions in English display a powerful diversity of uses.  In previous preposition article, we talked about the proposition “to“.  Here, we will look, at the preposition “of.”   The preposition “of” The word “of” is a preposition.  This means, it must be followed by a noun — or...