TheUltimateWinner wrote:
wach wrote:
- Sentence Correction: My best piece of advice is to start by looking at the END of the underlined portion, and correspondingly, at the end of each answer - at least to start. It is much clearer to see in this smaller section of the sentence how one ending would make sense or not, given the rest of the sentence that follows.
- Identify: This was the hardest for me. Thankfully it seems like the GMAT does not ask this kind of question frequently. I spent a long time on these questions, probably five times as long as any other, and just went over each option again and again. Usually I could get it down to two options.
Congrats for the perfect score in verbal part.
Can you explain the highlighted part with an official SC? Your help will be appreciated.
Sure thing! I can't attach a file since I just joined this forum, but here's a copy-paste question from the official materials:
The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early experiments in his “Essay on Heat and Light,”
a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.
A. a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a
B. a critique of all chemistry following Robert Boyle and also his envisioning of a
C. a critique of all chemistry after Robert Boyle and envisioning as well
D. critiquing all chemistry from Robert Boyle forward and also a vision of
E. critiquing all the chemistry done since Robert Boyle as well as his own envisioning of
If you look at the part after the underlined portion, it begins "new chemistry that..." so it has to be preceded by "a". It wouldn't make sense, for example, for it to begin "as well new chemistry that...". This allows you to narrow down the answer options to A and B (A is correct).
You still need to understand why or why not a sentence is grammatical, but I think that looking at the end of the underlined portion makes it easier to see which options can be immediately discarded. Then, when you are left with two or three options, the incorrect ones are usually more blatantly incorrect, because it seems like the GMAT makes every incorrect SC option incorrect for at least two reasons.
Hope that helps somewhat