{"id":31903,"date":"2016-01-20T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T22:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/land-your-score-sentence-correction-problems-part-2\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T22:21:04","slug":"land-your-score-sentence-correction-problems-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/land-your-score-sentence-correction-problems-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Your Score: Sentence Correction Problems, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/iStock_AnswersMedium3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/iStock_AnswersMedium3-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Can you solve this Sentence Correction problem?\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/em> <em>Apply the Kaplan method\u00a0to verbal\u00a0reasoning on the GMAT.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><span>Welcome to \u201cLand Your Score,\u201d a blog series in which Kaplan instructor Jennifer Land shares key insights and strategies for improving your GMAT performance on Test Day. This week, Jennifer continues her discussion of how to solve Sentence Correction problems using the Kaplan Method.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h4><b>The Kaplan\u00a0method for sentence\u00a0<\/b><b>correction<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span>When we last met, we used the first step of the Kaplan Method for Sentence Correction to tackle the following sentence:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A recent spate of news reports questioning the long-term health benefits of high-fat diets <\/span><span>have done little to convince its practitioners that they should follow more traditional weight-loss plans<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Plural or singular?<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span>Your task at the end of my last post was to identify the subject of the verb \u201chave.\u201d Although the plural phrase \u201chealth benefits\u201d<\/span> <span>appears close to the verb, the subject is actually \u201crecent spate.\u201d Because a <\/span><i><span>spate<\/span><\/i><span> is singular, we know the correct verb must also be singular, so \u201chave\u201d cannot be correct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now that we know we need a singular verb, we can apply steps 2 and 3 of the Kaplan Method to group the answer choices into \u201chave\u201d and \u201chas.\u201d We can then eliminate those that begin with \u201chave,\u201d because we need the singular form of this verb.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>have done little to convince its practitioners that they should follow more traditional weight-loss plans<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>have done little to convince their practitioners to follow more traditional weight-loss plans<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>has done little to convince its practitioners to follow more traditional weight loss plans<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>has done little to convince practitioners of these diets to follow more traditional weight-loss plans<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>has done little to convince practitioners of these diets they should follow more traditional weight-loss plans<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>Conciseness is key on the GMAT<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span>Among the three remaining answer choices, identify the differences. We have two choices that say \u201cto convince practitioners\u201d and one that says \u201cto convince its practitioners.\u201d What does that pronoun \u201cits\u201d refer to? The antecedent is unclear, so we can discard that answer choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among the two that remain, the differences are, \u201cto convince practitioners \u2026 to follow\u201d and \u201cto convince practitioners \u2026 they should follow.\u201d Because the GMAT prefers concise constructions that are idiomatically correct, \u201cconvince \u2026 to follow\u201d is correct. (When in doubt, choose the shorter of two remaining answer choices!)<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Read the corrected sentence<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span>The corrected sentence reads as follows: \u201cA recent spate of news reports questioning the long-term health benefits of high-fat diets <\/span><i><span>has done little to convince practitioners of these diets to follow more traditional weight-loss plans<\/span><\/i><span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Next week I will show you how to tackle another type of Quantitative Reasoning problem. Stay tuned to see how to defeat the dreaded Data Sufficiency!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i><span>Want to master Sentence Correction on the GMAT? <\/span><\/i><i><span><a title=\"explore your gmat options\" href=\"https:\/\/kaptest.com\/gmat\" target=\"_blank\">Explore our course options<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\/2016\/01\/20\/land-your-score-sentence-correction-problems-part-2\/\">Land Your Score: Sentence Correction Problems, Part 2<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\">Business School Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apply the Kaplan method\u00a0to verbal\u00a0reasoning on the GMAT. 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