Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Nov 2007:30 AM PST
-08:30 AM PST
Learn what truly sets the UC Riverside MBA apart and how it helps in your professional growth
Nov 2211:00 AM IST
-01:00 PM IST
Do RC/MSR passages scare you? e-GMAT is conducting a masterclass to help you learn – Learn effective reading strategies Tackle difficult RC & MSR with confidence Excel in timed test environment- Nov 23
11:00 AM IST
-01:00 PM IST
Attend this free GMAT Algebra Webinar and learn how to master the most challenging Inequalities and Absolute Value problems with ease. 
Nov 2510:00 AM EST
-11:00 AM EST
Prefer video-based learning? The Target Test Prep OnDemand course is a one-of-a-kind video masterclass featuring 400 hours of lecture-style teaching by Scott Woodbury-Stewart, founder of Target Test Prep and one of the most accomplished GMAT instructors.
Can someone please help find resources that can help me practice - parsing a sentence, especially identifying clauses?
An example of sentence parsing by awesome AndrewN is:
For producing effective e-learning content, it is desirable that images that paint a visual sketch of the idea in the mind of the learner are used.
For producing effective e-learning content is a prepositional phrase.
it is what is known as a placeholder. It serves a grammatical purpose without referring to anything in particular. (Popular examples of such usage surround weather descriptions such as It is sunny today.)
is desirable forms the predicate of the main clause: is is the verb, while desirable is used as a noun to answer what something is.
that images... are used, the entire underlined portion, is a noun or nominative clause that effectively serves as the subject of the main clause. The sentence is conveying that using certain types of images is desirable: That images... are used is desirable.
Within the above clause, that paint... learner is a relative clause that modifies the noun images. As such, the clause serves in the capacity of an adjective.
Within the embedded clause above, you encounter further prepositional phrases: of is a tip-off.
---- Parsing ends ----
The sentence in which I made a mistake of not being able to identify clauses correctly is:
Himiko, a method used to find an explanation of the shapes of galaxies, is based on Lyman-Alpha emission, a phenomenon in which the energy produced by the big-bang combines with the gravitational force of young stars heating up the nearby hydrogen gas, and producing a big red shift.
According to me there is one clause and one phrase
the first one- an independent clause - because it contains a subject and a verb and is a "complete idea"
the second one - a phrase - because there is no verb present
1. Himiko, a method used to find an explanation of the shapes of galaxies, is based on Lyman-Alpha emission
2. a phenomeon in which the energy produced by the big-bang combines with the gravitational force of young stars heating up the nearby hydrogen gas, and producing a big red shift.
But according to e-gmat there are two clauses as mentioned below:
1. Himiko, a method used to find an explanation of the shapes of galaxies, is based on Lyman-Alpha emission, a phenomenon in
2. which the energy produced by the big-bang combines with the gravitational force of young stars heating up the nearby hydrogen gas, and producing a big red shift.
An example of sentence parsing by awesome AndrewN is:
For producing effective e-learning content, it is desirable that images that paint a visual sketch of the idea in the mind of the learner are used.
For producing effective e-learning content is a prepositional phrase.
it is what is known as a placeholder. It serves a grammatical purpose without referring to anything in particular. (Popular examples of such usage surround weather descriptions such as It is sunny today.)
is desirable forms the predicate of the main clause: is is the verb, while desirable is used as a noun to answer what something is.
that images... are used, the entire underlined portion, is a noun or nominative clause that effectively serves as the subject of the main clause. The sentence is conveying that using certain types of images is desirable: That images... are used is desirable.
Within the above clause, that paint... learner is a relative clause that modifies the noun images. As such, the clause serves in the capacity of an adjective.
Within the embedded clause above, you encounter further prepositional phrases: of is a tip-off.
---- Parsing ends ----
The sentence in which I made a mistake of not being able to identify clauses correctly is:
Himiko, a method used to find an explanation of the shapes of galaxies, is based on Lyman-Alpha emission, a phenomenon in which the energy produced by the big-bang combines with the gravitational force of young stars heating up the nearby hydrogen gas, and producing a big red shift.
According to me there is one clause and one phrase
the first one- an independent clause - because it contains a subject and a verb and is a "complete idea"
the second one - a phrase - because there is no verb present
1. Himiko, a method used to find an explanation of the shapes of galaxies, is based on Lyman-Alpha emission
2. a phenomeon in which the energy produced by the big-bang combines with the gravitational force of young stars heating up the nearby hydrogen gas, and producing a big red shift.
But according to e-gmat there are two clauses as mentioned below:
1. Himiko, a method used to find an explanation of the shapes of galaxies, is based on Lyman-Alpha emission, a phenomenon in
2. which the energy produced by the big-bang combines with the gravitational force of young stars heating up the nearby hydrogen gas, and producing a big red shift.
Archived Topic
Hi there,
This topic has been closed and archived due to inactivity or violation of community quality standards. No more replies are possible here.
Where to now? Join ongoing discussions on thousands of quality questions in our Verbal Questions Forum
Still interested in this question? Check out the "Best Topics" block below for a better discussion on this exact question, as well as several more related questions.
Thank you for understanding, and happy exploring!
GMATist1
Joined: 23 Jul 2021
Last visit: 03 Dec 2023
Posts: 34
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 138
Location: India
Concentration: Entrepreneurship, Strategy
Schools: Rotman '25
WE:Other (Computer Software)
26 Oct 2021, 10:22
Kudos
Bookmarks
How to get better at parsing sentences? Any resources for practice?
26 Oct 2021, 10:23
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hi GMATist1
If you explore the link below properly, it might meet your needs:
https://gmatwithcj.com/solutions-to-gma ... questions/
Best Wishes!
If you explore the link below properly, it might meet your needs:
https://gmatwithcj.com/solutions-to-gma ... questions/
Best Wishes!
