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12 Nov 2018, 17:03
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Ask me anything about GMAT Sentence Correction and grammar
Hello! I'm Charles Bibilos, GMAT Club's resident Verbal Expert, and a GMAT teacher and tutor since... nevermind, I'll feel old if I tell you.
This thread is designed to be an absolute free-for-all on SC, and you're welcome to ask me absolutely anything. If your question is related to a specific question or a topic, please provide a link and a bit about what you want me to address.
And if you're looking for very general advice on how to improve your SC skills, try these links first:
- Beginner's Guide to SC
- How to go from great (760) to incredible (780?!) on SC
- YouTube webinar: getting your priorities right on SC
- All of our live YouTube webinars by topic
- Our old Wednesday verbal chats, with transcripts
Just be warned that non-official questions can be damaging on verbal, so I might be a bit dismissive of flawed, non-official questions. But still: it's an Ask Me Anything thread, so you're obviously welcome to ask me anything. Especially if it involves food. (Because I know you were going to ask: yes, caterpillars are indeed delicious when prepared properly. You're welcome.)
(Edit: because there's a lot of randomness in my soul, I'll answer these questions in no particular order. I'll answer them all eventually, though!)
And if you want to read some of the most generally useful posts on this thread, check out this greatest hits collection.
06 Dec 2019, 21:37
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Ask Me Anything About GMAT SC: Greatest Hits Collection
I just realized that this crazy little thread now has more than 200 posts on it.
: So it's, like, basically unreadable now. 
Some of the posts might actually be worth rereading, though. So here are a few highlights:
General SC & GMAT verbal advice
- Some general SC advice & resources for beginners
- What it takes to go from 40-42V to 45V
- Dealing with anxiety on SC
Posts about modifiers:
- That vs. who... and some bourbon and ostriches
- "Which" vs. "that"
- Countable vs. non-countable modifiers
Posts about ellipses (omitted words, often in comparisons)
Posts about other SC topics
- Why you don't necessarily want to "preserve" the meaning of answer choice (A)
- Verb tenses & the difference between "include" and "including"
- A good parallelism example
I'll keep adding to this list whenever something seems worthwhile enough. Enjoy!
13 Nov 2018, 10:46
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Hi Charles GMATNinja,
Ellipsis-
This is a case of ellipsis in comparison. In this, some words omitted from the sentence to make it more concise. Both noun and verb can be omitted. The omitted words should be present in the first part of the sentence in the same form.
-"Siri's AI capabilities are better than Alexa's (AI capabilities). - Correct! ("AI capabilities" is implied)
- Siri is smarter than Alexa (is). - Correct! ("is" is implied)
Siri is smarter than Alexa and Cortana are -- Here we CANNOT omit "are" since the verb in the earlier part is "is"?
Q1-For ellipsis, is it NECESSARY that the omitted words should be present in the first part of the sentence in the same form?
Q2- Also, are there any other rules/exceptions for ellipses other than two listed below.
The omission of a noun for concision is straightforward. Just make sure that the 2 nouns in the sentence can be logically compared. But there are certain exceptions when you are deciding -
1. Tense Shift-
If the verb tense changes from the first to the second half of the sentence, then the verb must not be omitted in the second half.
· You look more beautiful this year than last year. - Incorrect
· You look more beautiful this year than you did last year.- Correct
2. Meaning Ambiguity-
Do not omit the verb if doing so will make the sentence’s meaning ambiguous.
I love my dog more than my friend. - Incorrect -- ambiguity
·I love my dog more than I love my friend.- Correct!
·I love my dog more than my friend does.- Correct!
Q3 - Can you please write about the uses of WITH ?
Ellipsis-
This is a case of ellipsis in comparison. In this, some words omitted from the sentence to make it more concise. Both noun and verb can be omitted. The omitted words should be present in the first part of the sentence in the same form.
-"Siri's AI capabilities are better than Alexa's (AI capabilities). - Correct! ("AI capabilities" is implied)
- Siri is smarter than Alexa (is). - Correct! ("is" is implied)
Siri is smarter than Alexa and Cortana are -- Here we CANNOT omit "are" since the verb in the earlier part is "is"?
Q1-For ellipsis, is it NECESSARY that the omitted words should be present in the first part of the sentence in the same form?
Q2- Also, are there any other rules/exceptions for ellipses other than two listed below.
The omission of a noun for concision is straightforward. Just make sure that the 2 nouns in the sentence can be logically compared. But there are certain exceptions when you are deciding -
1. Tense Shift-
If the verb tense changes from the first to the second half of the sentence, then the verb must not be omitted in the second half.
· You look more beautiful this year than last year. - Incorrect
· You look more beautiful this year than you did last year.- Correct
2. Meaning Ambiguity-
Do not omit the verb if doing so will make the sentence’s meaning ambiguous.
I love my dog more than my friend. - Incorrect -- ambiguity
·I love my dog more than I love my friend.- Correct!
·I love my dog more than my friend does.- Correct!
Q3 - Can you please write about the uses of WITH ?
