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Sentence Correction (SC)
Rank	Title	Topics
1	There is a difference in the way the term turnover and the	Conjunctions/Gramatical Construction
2	Isotopes in the recently excavated bones of a 14-year-old	Modifiers/Debatable OA
3	Having extracted the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes from human DNA to	Pronouns
4	Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the 80-20 rule	Such as/Like
5	The manager at the office supply store believes that the new	Comparisons/Parallel Structure/Diction
6	A 2009 study from the California State Housing Authority	Parallel Structure/Punctuation/Which/That
7	There is generally agreement that feral swine are unwelcome	Verb Tense/Form/Such as/Like
8	At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution	Nouns/Verb Tense/Form
9	First published in 1946, and comparing the ways the world	Participle Parallelism/Verb Tense/Form
10	Meaning Based 2: MRS MERCKEL	Idioms
11	U.S. officials said they are convinced that by public demons	Construction/Gramatical Construction
12	For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing	Modifiers/Parallel Structure/Debatable OA
13	The controversy has divided the Senate, caused strains in	Participle Parallelism
14	While airline travel can be detrimental to your health	Idioms/Modifiers/Subject Verb Agreement
15	Originally a trading port, Hong-Kong, currently estimated to	Clauses/Modifiers
16	Since 1966, roughly 21 percent of those enlisted in the USMC	Style and Usage/Verb Tense/Form/Construction/Gramatical Construction
17	The misnomer that sibling rivalry is a thing of the 'past'	Gramatical Construction
18	In assessing the problems faced by rural migrant workers,	Construction
19	In good years, the patchwork of green fields that surround	Modifiers/Nouns/Subject Verb Agreement
20	Hurricane resistant classification is given by the	Debatable OA
21	Classical guitar was neither prestigious nor was often	Gramatical Construction/Modifiers/Verb Tense/Form/Verb Voice
22	A year advantage in a new computer product or process being	Gerund/Clauses/Infinitive/Gramatical Construction/Idioms/Debatable OA
23	Manifestations of the British Empire's colonial policy in	Parallel Structure/Style and Usage
24	To many critics, it seems strange for Ms. Tramonivic,	Modifiers/Parallel Structure/Which/That/Verb Voice
25	Corporate finance committees do not plan the detailed	Clauses/Construction/Parallel Structure/Idioms
26	After all the recent political changes, the Syrians are figu	Style and Usage
27	Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of	Participle Parallelism
28	It is no surprise that Riyadh, the Saudi capital where peopl	Gramatical Construction
29	The paradox of the Roman empires history is marked by the	Parallel Structure/Participle Parallelism
30	Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the	Comparisons/Parallel Structure/Modifiers/Pronouns
31	Contemporary accounts of the life of Charlemagne, crowned	Parallel Structure
32	Constructive dialogue is one of the fundamentals	Conjunctions/Style and Usage/Subject Verb Agreement
33	Because the population is denser there and the auto mobile	Comparisons
34	Jazz was neither popular nor was often played in auditoriums	Modifiers/Parallel Structure
35	The recent discovery of a red oak tree sap that is	Comparisons/Modifiers/Parallel Structure/Punctuation/Which/That/Construction
36	Any medical test will sometimes fail to detect a condition	Pronouns/Gramatical Construction
37	Many employees in the energy sector must choose between jobs	Idioms/Parallel Structure
38	Rather than accept the throne of Kapilavastu, Lord Buddha	Modifiers/Nouns/Pronouns/Subject Verb Agreement
39	Heightened land erosion, caused by human activity, has many
40	The data being collected in the current geological survey	Pronouns
41	The Queensway Tunnel was built in the 1930s	Pronouns
42	The recent floods in Pakistan were caused by an incessant	Idioms/Verb Tense/Form
43	Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would	Adjectives and Adverbs
44	Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the â80-20 rule	Such as/Like
45	The recent spate of traffic jams on Beijing-Tibet highway	Style and Usage/Subject Verb Agreement/Verb Voice/Construction
46	Scientists have found new evidence of people initially	Comparisons
47	In the late 1880s, the journalist Jacob Riis	Modifiers/Parallel Structure
48	The proliferation of so-called cybersquatters, people who	Modifiers/Pronouns/Parallel Structure
49	Stymieing the Armadas plans to meet up with the Duke of	Parallel Structure
50	Of all the major developments in information technology that	Idioms/Verb Tense/Form
51	One result of the family's long ordeal at sea was	Pronouns/If-Then
52	Whereas the use of synthetic fertilizers has greatly
53	Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth	Parallel Structure
54	The SC problem below is a tough modifier problem. I was	Modifiers
55	Explorer Bob Ballard recently discovered a completely intact	Verb Tense/Form
56	The Sri-NuanSri-Nuan dance and Teut-Teung dance are an	Comparisons/Gramatical Construction/Style and Usage
57	According to a recent study of home buyers	Comparisons/Gramatical Construction
58	The preliminary agreement to what was to be ...	Construction/Idioms
59	The proliferation of so-called cybersquatters, people who	Modifiers/Verb Tense/Form
60	From 1982 to 1987 sales of new small boats increased between	Gramatical Construction/Idioms/Debatable OA
61	As an actress, and more importantly as a teacher of acting	Modifiers/Verb Tense/Form
62	Research during the past several decades on the nature of	Gramatical Construction/Modifiers/Parallel Structure
63	Astronomers have theorized that the Big Bang governs the	Verb Tense/Form/Participle Parallelism
64	The treaty specifies that the economy of the member nations	Subjunctive
65	Ending a contentious political stalemate that frightened	Verb Tense/Form/Debatable OA
66	Salmon oil is one of the best Omega-3 sources	Parallel Structure
67	Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests	Verb Tense/Form/Parallel Structure
68	NASAs methodical approach to the exploration of Mars has not
69	Like a protein rich diet that the healthy genes need to prod	Comparisons/Parallel Structure/Debatable OA
70	This century began with war brewing in Europe	Parallel Structure
71	On Earth, among the surest indications of sunspot cycles are
72	In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money	Parallel Structure/Style and Usage/Gramatical Construction
73	In contrast to the tense private drama, Act III is brought	Comparisons
74	Founded in 1983, the magazine increased its circulation more	Comparisons/Idioms/Debatable OA
75	The first personal computers had severe hardware and	Comparisons
76	Since the 1930's aircraft manufacturers have tried to build	Debatable OA/Modifiers/Parallel Structure
77	Q. Because the Supreme Court has ruled that the prosecution	Verb Tense/Form/Which/That/Construction
78	In contrast to the declarations made at previous UN climate	Comparisons
79	Patience Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks exhibit	Parallel Structure
80	Agricultural scientists have estimated that the annual loss	Diction
81	Although dozens of New York s small museums are either	Conjunctions
82	Hoping the customers would not carelessly throw too many of	Pronouns
83	One of the greatest problems facing Engineering	Infinitive/Participle Parallelism/Style and Usage
84	Medieval monks, through their manuscript illuminations,	Modifiers
85	Policy makers remain concerned about the prospect of	Clauses/Construction/Modifiers
86	At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution, the most	Clauses
87	The company s efforts to seek advance orders for its	Comparisons
88	Examples of "tulipomania," a term coined from the tulip craz	Modifiers
89	As business grows more complex, students majoring in	Such as/Like
90	Often said to look like an egg crate, the Omni Coliseum's	Modifiers
91	Recent indications of weakness in the economy have lead	Style and Usage
92	The adopted use of trained fighter horses	Idioms/Diction/Modifiers
93	Among lower- paid workers, union members are less likely
94	The prime lending rate is a key rate in the economy: not	Parallel Structure/Idioms
95	Since the 1930 s aircraft manufacturers have tried to build	Adjectives and Adverbs
96	Visby is the largest city on the Swedish island of Gotland;	Debatable OA
97	Rumored, and believed by most, to have committed suicide on	Diction
98	The word horticulture originates from the Latin word hortus	Parallel Structure
99	His campaign for sanitary conditions in operating rooms
100	Source: Master GMAT The word inspired is used often by	Pronouns/Style and Usage/Modifiers

Sentence Correction (SC)
Rank	Title	Topics
1	There is a difference in the way the term turnover and the	Conjunctions/Gramatical Construction
2	Isotopes in the recently excavated bones of a 14-year-old	Modifiers/Debatable OA
3	Having extracted the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes from human DNA to	Pronouns
4	Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the 80-20 rule	Such as/Like
5	The manager at the office supply store believes that the new	Comparisons/Parallel Structure/Diction
6	A 2009 study from the California State Housing Authority	Parallel Structure/Punctuation/Which/That
7	There is generally agreement that feral swine are unwelcome	Verb Tense/Form/Such as/Like
8	At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution	Nouns/Verb Tense/Form
9	First published in 1946, and comparing the ways the world	Participle Parallelism/Verb Tense/Form
10	Meaning Based 2: MRS MERCKEL	Idioms
11	U.S. officials said they are convinced that by public demons	Construction/Gramatical Construction
12	For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing	Modifiers/Parallel Structure/Debatable OA
13	The controversy has divided the Senate, caused strains in	Participle Parallelism
14	While airline travel can be detrimental to your health	Idioms/Modifiers/Subject Verb Agreement
15	Originally a trading port, Hong-Kong, currently estimated to	Clauses/Modifiers
16	Since 1966, roughly 21 percent of those enlisted in the USMC	Style and Usage/Verb Tense/Form/Construction/Gramatical Construction
17	The misnomer that sibling rivalry is a thing of the 'past'	Gramatical Construction
18	In assessing the problems faced by rural migrant workers,	Construction
19	In good years, the patchwork of green fields that surround	Modifiers/Nouns/Subject Verb Agreement
20	Hurricane resistant classification is given by the	Debatable OA
21	Classical guitar was neither prestigious nor was often	Gramatical Construction/Modifiers/Verb Tense/Form/Verb Voice
22	A year advantage in a new computer product or process being	Gerund/Clauses/Infinitive/Gramatical Construction/Idioms/Debatable OA
23	Manifestations of the British Empire's colonial policy in	Parallel Structure/Style and Usage
24	To many critics, it seems strange for Ms. Tramonivic,	Modifiers/Parallel Structure/Which/That/Verb Voice
25	Corporate finance committees do not plan the detailed	Clauses/Construction/Parallel Structure/Idioms
26	After all the recent political changes, the Syrians are figu	Style and Usage
27	Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of	Participle Parallelism
28	It is no surprise that Riyadh, the Saudi capital where peopl	Gramatical Construction
29	The paradox of the Roman empires history is marked by the	Parallel Structure/Participle Parallelism
30	Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the	Comparisons/Parallel Structure/Modifiers/Pronouns
31	Contemporary accounts of the life of Charlemagne, crowned	Parallel Structure
32	Constructive dialogue is one of the fundamentals	Conjunctions/Style and Usage/Subject Verb Agreement
33	Because the population is denser there and the auto mobile	Comparisons
34	Jazz was neither popular nor was often played in auditoriums	Modifiers/Parallel Structure
35	The recent discovery of a red oak tree sap that is	Comparisons/Modifiers/Parallel Structure/Punctuation/Which/That/Construction
36	Any medical test will sometimes fail to detect a condition	Pronouns/Gramatical Construction
37	Many employees in the energy sector must choose between jobs	Idioms/Parallel Structure
38	Rather than accept the throne of Kapilavastu, Lord Buddha	Modifiers/Nouns/Pronouns/Subject Verb Agreement
39	Heightened land erosion, caused by human activity, has many
40	The data being collected in the current geological survey	Pronouns
41	The Queensway Tunnel was built in the 1930s	Pronouns
42	The recent floods in Pakistan were caused by an incessant	Idioms/Verb Tense/Form
43	Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would	Adjectives and Adverbs
44	Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the â80-20 rule	Such as/Like
45	The recent spate of traffic jams on Beijing-Tibet highway	Style and Usage/Subject Verb Agreement/Verb Voice/Construction
46	Scientists have found new evidence of people initially	Comparisons
47	In the late 1880s, the journalist Jacob Riis	Modifiers/Parallel Structure
48	The proliferation of so-called cybersquatters, people who	Modifiers/Pronouns/Parallel Structure
49	Stymieing the Armadas plans to meet up with the Duke of	Parallel Structure
50	Of all the major developments in information technology that	Idioms/Verb Tense/Form
51	One result of the family's long ordeal at sea was	Pronouns/If-Then
52	Whereas the use of synthetic fertilizers has greatly
53	Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth	Parallel Structure
54	The SC problem below is a tough modifier problem. I was	Modifiers
55	Explorer Bob Ballard recently discovered a completely intact	Verb Tense/Form
56	The Sri-NuanSri-Nuan dance and Teut-Teung dance are an	Comparisons/Gramatical Construction/Style and Usage
57	According to a recent study of home buyers	Comparisons/Gramatical Construction
58	The preliminary agreement to what was to be ...	Construction/Idioms
59	The proliferation of so-called cybersquatters, people who	Modifiers/Verb Tense/Form
60	From 1982 to 1987 sales of new small boats increased between	Gramatical Construction/Idioms/Debatable OA
61	As an actress, and more importantly as a teacher of acting	Modifiers/Verb Tense/Form
62	Research during the past several decades on the nature of	Gramatical Construction/Modifiers/Parallel Structure
63	Astronomers have theorized that the Big Bang governs the	Verb Tense/Form/Participle Parallelism
64	The treaty specifies that the economy of the member nations	Subjunctive
65	Ending a contentious political stalemate that frightened	Verb Tense/Form/Debatable OA
66	Salmon oil is one of the best Omega-3 sources	Parallel Structure
67	Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests	Verb Tense/Form/Parallel Structure
68	NASAs methodical approach to the exploration of Mars has not
69	Like a protein rich diet that the healthy genes need to prod	Comparisons/Parallel Structure/Debatable OA
70	This century began with war brewing in Europe	Parallel Structure
71	On Earth, among the surest indications of sunspot cycles are
72	In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money	Parallel Structure/Style and Usage/Gramatical Construction
73	In contrast to the tense private drama, Act III is brought	Comparisons
74	Founded in 1983, the magazine increased its circulation more	Comparisons/Idioms/Debatable OA
75	The first personal computers had severe hardware and	Comparisons
76	Since the 1930's aircraft manufacturers have tried to build	Debatable OA/Modifiers/Parallel Structure
77	Q. Because the Supreme Court has ruled that the prosecution	Verb Tense/Form/Which/That/Construction
78	In contrast to the declarations made at previous UN climate	Comparisons
79	Patience Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks exhibit	Parallel Structure
80	Agricultural scientists have estimated that the annual loss	Diction
81	Although dozens of New York s small museums are either	Conjunctions
82	Hoping the customers would not carelessly throw too many of	Pronouns
83	One of the greatest problems facing Engineering	Infinitive/Participle Parallelism/Style and Usage
84	Medieval monks, through their manuscript illuminations,	Modifiers
85	Policy makers remain concerned about the prospect of	Clauses/Construction/Modifiers
86	At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution, the most	Clauses
87	The company s efforts to seek advance orders for its	Comparisons
88	Examples of "tulipomania," a term coined from the tulip craz	Modifiers
89	As business grows more complex, students majoring in	Such as/Like
90	Often said to look like an egg crate, the Omni Coliseum's	Modifiers
91	Recent indications of weakness in the economy have lead	Style and Usage
92	The adopted use of trained fighter horses	Idioms/Diction/Modifiers
93	Among lower- paid workers, union members are less likely
94	The prime lending rate is a key rate in the economy: not	Parallel Structure/Idioms
95	Since the 1930 s aircraft manufacturers have tried to build	Adjectives and Adverbs
96	Visby is the largest city on the Swedish island of Gotland;	Debatable OA
97	Rumored, and believed by most, to have committed suicide on	Diction
98	The word horticulture originates from the Latin word hortus	Parallel Structure
99	His campaign for sanitary conditions in operating rooms
100	Source: Master GMAT The word inspired is used often by	Pronouns/Style and Usage/Modifiers

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