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Sentence Correction (SC) | Rank | Title | Topics |
1 | There is a difference in the way the term turnover and the | Conjunctions/Gramatical Construction |
2 | Isotopes in the recently excavated bones of a 14-year-old | Modifiers/Debatable OA |
3 | Having extracted the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes from human DNA to | Pronouns |
4 | Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the 80-20 rule | Such as/Like |
5 | The manager at the office supply store believes that the new | Comparisons/Parallel Structure/Diction |
6 | A 2009 study from the California State Housing Authority | Parallel Structure/Punctuation/Which/That |
7 | There is generally agreement that feral swine are unwelcome | Verb Tense/Form/Such as/Like |
8 | At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution | Nouns/Verb Tense/Form |
9 | First published in 1946, and comparing the ways the world | Participle Parallelism/Verb Tense/Form |
10 | Meaning Based 2: MRS MERCKEL | Idioms |
11 | U.S. officials said they are convinced that by public demons | Construction/Gramatical Construction |
12 | For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing | Modifiers/Parallel Structure/Debatable OA |
13 | The controversy has divided the Senate, caused strains in | Participle Parallelism |
14 | While airline travel can be detrimental to your health | Idioms/Modifiers/Subject Verb Agreement |
15 | Originally a trading port, Hong-Kong, currently estimated to | Clauses/Modifiers |
16 | Since 1966, roughly 21 percent of those enlisted in the USMC | Style and Usage/Verb Tense/Form/Construction/Gramatical Construction |
17 | The misnomer that sibling rivalry is a thing of the 'past' | Gramatical Construction |
18 | In assessing the problems faced by rural migrant workers, | Construction |
19 | In good years, the patchwork of green fields that surround | Modifiers/Nouns/Subject Verb Agreement |
20 | Hurricane resistant classification is given by the | Debatable OA |
21 | Classical guitar was neither prestigious nor was often | Gramatical Construction/Modifiers/Verb Tense/Form/Verb Voice |
22 | A year advantage in a new computer product or process being | Gerund/Clauses/Infinitive/Gramatical Construction/Idioms/Debatable OA |
23 | Manifestations of the British Empire's colonial policy in | Parallel Structure/Style and Usage |
24 | To many critics, it seems strange for Ms. Tramonivic, | Modifiers/Parallel Structure/Which/That/Verb Voice |
25 | Corporate finance committees do not plan the detailed | Clauses/Construction/Parallel Structure/Idioms |
26 | After all the recent political changes, the Syrians are figu | Style and Usage |
27 | Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of | Participle Parallelism |
28 | It is no surprise that Riyadh, the Saudi capital where peopl | Gramatical Construction |
29 | The paradox of the Roman empires history is marked by the | Parallel Structure/Participle Parallelism |
30 | Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the | Comparisons/Parallel Structure/Modifiers/Pronouns |
31 | Contemporary accounts of the life of Charlemagne, crowned | Parallel Structure |
32 | Constructive dialogue is one of the fundamentals | Conjunctions/Style and Usage/Subject Verb Agreement |
33 | Because the population is denser there and the auto mobile | Comparisons |
34 | Jazz was neither popular nor was often played in auditoriums | Modifiers/Parallel Structure |
35 | The recent discovery of a red oak tree sap that is | Comparisons/Modifiers/Parallel Structure/Punctuation/Which/That/Construction |
36 | Any medical test will sometimes fail to detect a condition | Pronouns/Gramatical Construction |
37 | Many employees in the energy sector must choose between jobs | Idioms/Parallel Structure |
38 | Rather than accept the throne of Kapilavastu, Lord Buddha | Modifiers/Nouns/Pronouns/Subject Verb Agreement |
39 | Heightened land erosion, caused by human activity, has many | |
40 | The data being collected in the current geological survey | Pronouns |
41 | The Queensway Tunnel was built in the 1930s | Pronouns |
42 | The recent floods in Pakistan were caused by an incessant | Idioms/Verb Tense/Form |
43 | Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would | Adjectives and Adverbs |
44 | Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the â80-20 rule | Such as/Like |
45 | The recent spate of traffic jams on Beijing-Tibet highway | Style and Usage/Subject Verb Agreement/Verb Voice/Construction |
46 | Scientists have found new evidence of people initially | Comparisons |
47 | In the late 1880s, the journalist Jacob Riis | Modifiers/Parallel Structure |
48 | The proliferation of so-called cybersquatters, people who | Modifiers/Pronouns/Parallel Structure |
49 | Stymieing the Armadas plans to meet up with the Duke of | Parallel Structure |
50 | Of all the major developments in information technology that | Idioms/Verb Tense/Form |
51 | One result of the family's long ordeal at sea was | Pronouns/If-Then |
52 | Whereas the use of synthetic fertilizers has greatly | |
53 | Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth | Parallel Structure |
54 | The SC problem below is a tough modifier problem. I was | Modifiers |
55 | Explorer Bob Ballard recently discovered a completely intact | Verb Tense/Form |
56 | The Sri-NuanSri-Nuan dance and Teut-Teung dance are an | Comparisons/Gramatical Construction/Style and Usage |
57 | According to a recent study of home buyers | Comparisons/Gramatical Construction |
58 | The preliminary agreement to what was to be ... | Construction/Idioms |
59 | The proliferation of so-called cybersquatters, people who | Modifiers/Verb Tense/Form |
60 | From 1982 to 1987 sales of new small boats increased between | Gramatical Construction/Idioms/Debatable OA |
61 | As an actress, and more importantly as a teacher of acting | Modifiers/Verb Tense/Form |
62 | Research during the past several decades on the nature of | Gramatical Construction/Modifiers/Parallel Structure |
63 | Astronomers have theorized that the Big Bang governs the | Verb Tense/Form/Participle Parallelism |
64 | The treaty specifies that the economy of the member nations | Subjunctive |
65 | Ending a contentious political stalemate that frightened | Verb Tense/Form/Debatable OA |
66 | Salmon oil is one of the best Omega-3 sources | Parallel Structure |
67 | Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests | Verb Tense/Form/Parallel Structure |
68 | NASAs methodical approach to the exploration of Mars has not | |
69 | Like a protein rich diet that the healthy genes need to prod | Comparisons/Parallel Structure/Debatable OA |
70 | This century began with war brewing in Europe | Parallel Structure |
71 | On Earth, among the surest indications of sunspot cycles are | |
72 | In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money | Parallel Structure/Style and Usage/Gramatical Construction |
73 | In contrast to the tense private drama, Act III is brought | Comparisons |
74 | Founded in 1983, the magazine increased its circulation more | Comparisons/Idioms/Debatable OA |
75 | The first personal computers had severe hardware and | Comparisons |
76 | Since the 1930's aircraft manufacturers have tried to build | Debatable OA/Modifiers/Parallel Structure |
77 | Q. Because the Supreme Court has ruled that the prosecution | Verb Tense/Form/Which/That/Construction |
78 | In contrast to the declarations made at previous UN climate | Comparisons |
79 | Patience Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks exhibit | Parallel Structure |
80 | Agricultural scientists have estimated that the annual loss | Diction |
81 | Although dozens of New York s small museums are either | Conjunctions |
82 | Hoping the customers would not carelessly throw too many of | Pronouns |
83 | One of the greatest problems facing Engineering | Infinitive/Participle Parallelism/Style and Usage |
84 | Medieval monks, through their manuscript illuminations, | Modifiers |
85 | Policy makers remain concerned about the prospect of | Clauses/Construction/Modifiers |
86 | At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution, the most | Clauses |
87 | The company s efforts to seek advance orders for its | Comparisons |
88 | Examples of "tulipomania," a term coined from the tulip craz | Modifiers |
89 | As business grows more complex, students majoring in | Such as/Like |
90 | Often said to look like an egg crate, the Omni Coliseum's | Modifiers |
91 | Recent indications of weakness in the economy have lead | Style and Usage |
92 | The adopted use of trained fighter horses | Idioms/Diction/Modifiers |
93 | Among lower- paid workers, union members are less likely | |
94 | The prime lending rate is a key rate in the economy: not | Parallel Structure/Idioms |
95 | Since the 1930 s aircraft manufacturers have tried to build | Adjectives and Adverbs |
96 | Visby is the largest city on the Swedish island of Gotland; | Debatable OA |
97 | Rumored, and believed by most, to have committed suicide on | Diction |
98 | The word horticulture originates from the Latin word hortus | Parallel Structure |
99 | His campaign for sanitary conditions in operating rooms | |
100 | Source: Master GMAT The word inspired is used often by | Pronouns/Style and Usage/Modifiers |