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To start, consider these practice GMAT Sentence Correction questions.<\/p>\nTo start, consider these practice GMAT Sentence Correction questions.<\/p>\n
1) The Senator's warm recommendation of the popular Congressman seemed to many\u00a0an implication that\u00a0he will not see re-election to his current office.<\/p>\n
2) Five-star General\u00a0John Pershing<\/a>\u00a0had\u00a0such a sweeping command in World War I as no single WWII general is a correspondence to\u00a0him.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The GMAT prefers active and direct language, clear and powerful.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Ultimately, this kind of language is what creates sales and drives business deals.\u00a0 Consider an ad campaign along the lines of \"Our product is seen by customers as having a quality that is higher than those of our competitors<\/em>\" --- abysmal!\u00a0 No one would run a campaign like this unless it were intended as a joke, say, said in a drawl by a dim-witted cartoon turtle while things explode around him!\u00a0 The slogan \"No one beats our quality!<\/em>\" is much more powerful and to the point, and much more likely to stick in people's heads.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One split that appears sprinkled throughout the GMAT Sentence Correction questions is having the same root word appear in verb & noun form in different answer choices, or even in verb & noun & adjective form (Cf. OG13, SC#36).\u00a0 As a general rule, the verb-form will be correct almost every time.\u00a0 Most often, phrasing the word in noun or adjective form will result in a longer, more indirect, and more awkward construction, while using the verb form will yield a simple, clear, and direct construction.\u00a0 This is not a hard & fast rule, and this very seldom will be the\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0split deciding between two answer choices.\u00a0 Nevertheless, this can be a powerful shortcut for eliminating wrong choices and zeroing in on the correct choice.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Having read this article, take another look at the questions above before reading the explanations below.\u00a0 Verify that you can find the word that has verb vs. noun forms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1)\u00a0Split #1: the noun\/verb\/adjective split.\u00a0\u00a0 Choices\u00a0(A)<\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0(B)<\/strong>\u00a0use the noun form, \"implication\", and indeed, these are longer, wordier, and less direct than they could be; these are not correct.\u00a0\u00a0 Choice\u00a0(C)<\/strong>\u00a0uses the verb \"imply.\" Choice\u00a0(D)<\/strong>\u00a0uses the participle \"implying.\" \u00a0\u00a0Choice\u00a0(E)<\/strong>\u00a0uses the adjective \"implicit\", which changes the meaning significantly, so this is incorrect.<\/p>\n Split #2: \"that\" --- in colloquial speech, we often drop the word \"that\" in casual conversation --- \"He said she was angry.\"\u00a0 On the GMAT, though, this is unacceptable.\u00a0 The formal language of the GMAT demands the word \"that\".\u00a0 Choices\u00a0(B)<\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0(D)<\/strong>\u00a0drop the word \"that\" before the clause, so these two are incorrect.<\/p>\n Because of these, the only possible answer is\u00a0(C)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 2)\u00a0Split #1: non vs. verb.\u00a0 The noun \"correspondence\" appears in choices\u00a0(A)<\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0(B)<\/strong>, and the verb forms \"corresponding\" and \"corresponds\" appear in choices\u00a0(C)<\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0(D)<\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0(E)<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is not conclusive, but we suspect the correct answer will be among these latter three.<\/p>\n Split #2: the idiom with \"correspond\".\u00a0 Both the verb \"to correspond\" and the noun \"correspondence\" take the preposition \"to\" when we are talking about a \"correspondence\" in the sense of a pattern of matching, as we are here. (We would speak of a \"correspondence with\" someone if we were talking about an exchange of communication.)\u00a0 Here, we need the preposition \"to\" --- choices\u00a0(A)<\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0(C)<\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0(D)<\/strong>\u00a0have this correct preposition, but choices\u00a0(B)<\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0(E)<\/strong>\u00a0make the mistake of using \"with\", so these two are incorrect.<\/p>\n Split #3: the \"such\" & \"so\" construction.\u00a0 One correct idiom is \"such a [noun] that<\/strong>\" --- here, the construction \"such a sweeping command in WWI that\" ---- only choice\u00a0(B)<\/strong>\u00a0has this version correct.\u00a0\u00a0 Another correct idiom is \"so [adjective] that<\/strong>\" or \"so [adjective] a [noun] that<\/strong>\" --- here, we would need the construction \"so sweeping a command in WWI that\" ---- only choice\u00a0(D)<\/strong>\u00a0correctly follows this idiom.\u00a0 The other three choices don\u2019t follow either of these idioms correctly.<\/p>\n The only possible answer is\u00a0(D)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This post was written by Mike McGarry, GMAT expert at Magoosh<\/a>, and originally posted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To start, consider these practice GMAT Sentence Correction questions. 1) The Senator’s warm recommendation of the popular Congressman seemed to many\u00a0an implication that\u00a0he will not see re-election to his current…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,783,243,719,735],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-magoosh-blog","category-blog","category-sentence-correction-gmat","category-verbal-gmat-blog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16775,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions\/16775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Action<\/h2>\n
Verbs are action words<\/h2>\n
Summary<\/h2>\n
Practice question explanations<\/h2>\n