Sentence Correction Megathread

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Sentence Correction Megathread  
An attempt to consolidate every valuable resource on the forum and more on one single thread!

Popular Sentence Correction Guides/Books 
 
  GMAT Club Grammar Book - Free  
  Manhattan GMAT SC Guide  (no longer sold separately in the latest edition) 
  Manhattan GMAT Foundations of GMAT Verbal  
  Veritas Prep New GMAT books  
  Aristotle Prep SC Grail 3rd Edition

GMAT Club Resources 
   Using structure and meaning to decipher modifiers   - new!  
  "To do x" vs "doing x," a secret idiomatic best practice   - new!  
  Learn how "THAT" can help you de-mystify a long sentence  
  Using the "On a white bus" Mnemonic for Run-on Sentences  
  Noun + Noun Modifier VS. Verb-ing Modifier  
  Noun + Noun Modifiers  
  Spoken English vs Written English  
  Verbs in the Perfect Tense  
  Thursdays with Ron: Quality SC  
  Alien Words Not So "Alien"  
  Slightly Far Away Nouns Prequel   
  Noun Modifiers Can Modify Slightly Far Away Noun  
  Usage of Verb-ing Modifiers  
  Usage of Verb-ing Modifiers Continued   
   ED Forms Verbs or Modifiers?  
  The Most Efficient Approach to GMAT Sentence Correction  
  As Vs Like: Correct and Incorrect usages  
   Meaning Modifiers and Parallelism  
  Pronouns: Debunking Popular Myths, Intro    - new!  
  Verb-ed Modifiers Cannot Jump Over Verbs  
  Various Functions of Verb-ing Words   
  How to cut through the fluff and speed through SC  
  Using structure and meaning to decipher modifiers  
  "To do x" vs "doing x," a secret idiomatic best practice  
  Pronoun Sentence Correction Strategies

Misc. Resources 
 e-GMAT Resources  - All SC articles by e-GMAT
 Thursdays with Ron  - 20+ highly insightful videos by MGMAT top instructor Ron Purewal
 Advanced Sentence Correction PPT and Questions  - A collection of advanced concepts of Sentence Correction presented in powerpoint with practice question bank
 Manhattan GMAT SC Blog  - 100+ articles on GMAT SC
 SC Guide by Whiplash  - This guide covers the major error types and miscellaneous pointers to watch for.
 GMAT Club forum notes  - This post contains important notes by GMAT Club members. T
 SC Verbal question bank and directories by Carcass  - This topic gathers among the most important resources in our GMATClub arsenal.

Sentence Correction Question Banks 
   Sentence Correction Questions Directory By Topic and Difficulty : Directory made by bb which contains all the GMAT Club questions categorized into different topics and difficulty levels.
 
  Official SC Questions Database :This resource contains all the official SC questions ever made.
 
  Official Guide Verbal Question Directory :Have questions about the OG explanations? We have scavenged the forum for the best of the best OG Question discussions and presenting to you the Verbal Collection!
 
  1000SC & 100 Brutal Question With Explanations : Database of questions and explanations for 1000SC and 100 Brutal Questions.
 
  SC Question Bank on Meaning : An effort by souvik101990 and Carcass to compile a question bank of 70 meaning based SC questions.
 
  100 Amazing SC Questions + Explanations : Questions with solutions compiled by the user Legendaddy.
 
  SC 700+ level Tests With Solutions : Questions with solutions compiled by the user CrackHSW.

TheGraceful · Accepted Answer

You need to take efforts to search that on this forum. Thankfully, Founder of this forum, has taken efforts to make our life even more easier, see his post below. https://gmatclub.com/forum/sentence-cor ... l#p1066068 Also, don't forget to see GMATclub guide to OG2019 (also available for for all other OG's)in his signature and you will be amazed to see how efficiently you can track your progress. Please press kudos if this is helpful.

ssh1092 · Answer

which resource would be the best for someone just starting with the Verbal preparation?

TheGraceful · Answer

Hi,
I would suggest to go for Aristotle books. I have been using those and have seen improvements in my verbal skills.
Aristotle RC grail, CR Grail and SC grail (along with Manhattan prep SC guide) are the best books for non natives. And not to forget Ready4GMAT mobile app. Build your concepts first and then you can practice the GMAT OG questions and GMATPrep.
I am going to write a review about these products soon
Thanks.

Hope this helps.

Thanks
The Graceful

SimranHemdev · Answer

Hi,
Where do you suggest I practice 700+ SC questions from?

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sadikabid27 · Answer

souvik101990  is it safe to practice these 1000sc questions in 2018 for gmat preparation ?

shahidomer77 · Answer

Hi SimranHemdev,

For quants practice from gmat club . It would be better if you buy 114$ pack because the quants are really tough.
For Verbal practice 404 from mba.com .

Kudos please

aniket16c · Answer

The general strategy used on SC questions, it to look for a 2/3 split and proceed accordingly.
In some questions, it is very difficult to find a 2/3 split. 
My general approach is such a case is to read all the options, understand the options and proceed accordingly.
However, this is consuming considerable time.
In addition to this, I am unable to spot an error at the first instance I read the question.

Can experts please suggest solution?

Saurabhminocha · Answer

souvik101990 First of all thank you for this megathread! The link for Thursdays with Ron no longer seems to exist on the MGMAT website. Kindly let me know if I am wrong.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/updated-thur ... 98304.html

This link might be helpful.

Nitishnautiyal · Answer

Hey guys so I just started practising from scholarium on e-gmat and my accuracy has hit really low , the main issue being timing so far doing all the concepts in egmat and practise quizzes I didn’t time myself as it was suggested to focus on accuracy first and took my own sweet time to do the og questions and concept practise questions then yesterday I started scholaranium and did 15 questions with only 6correct and I am scared to attempt more ,I have spent two weeks studying concepts and feeling lost if I still lack conceptual knowledge or is it the timing part which is adding stress , I have >80% in all concept files and practises for egmat sentence correction

Please suggest the outlook and if my accuracy will improve as of now am feeling too scared to even attempt

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Please suggest the outlook and if my accuracy will improve as of now am feeling too scared to even attempt

Posted from my mobile device

axfectcircle · Answer

I found Manhattan guides among the most complete. The books for preparing Verbal take quite some time though.

TargetMBA007 · Answer

Thanks for this amazing list. I was wondering if there is a good resource for all marker words for dependent clauses?

charlie138 · Answer

Hi

Can someone please tell me if this sentence is correct or not, "I like to eat, dance and swim."

I think it is not parallel and should be "I like to eat, to dance and to swim." according to the rules but this sentence sounds so awkward.

Thanks!

RazielsRedemption · Answer

My biggest weakness is sentence correction. Any plan I can follow to improve? I would be grateful. I'm usually lost between the last 2 answers 1 wrong and the right one so I'm almost there, What's the best way to get to the highest level?

AWasey · Answer

The distance between the two runners, which is over 50 meters, cannot be made up with only three laps to go in the race.

1.The distance between the two runners, which is over 50 meters.
2.The distance between the two runners, who is over 50 meters.
3.The distance between the two runners, whom is over 50 meters.
4.The distance between the two runners, that is over 50 meters.
5.The distance between the two runners, whoever is over 50 meters.

Why the answer is A and not D.
Which refers to the noun just before the comma.

Please clarify!

Transponster · Answer

The placement of the comma before 'that' is wrong. Assuming that there wasn't a comma, even then the sentence would be an incomplete statement.

onamusing · Answer

Hello all -
I was looking for the veritas prep video series (SC specifically) - did anyone happen to make a copy before they were made private on youtube?

thegmatmaster · Answer

Hi. I'm from Brazil thus Portuguese speaker and using magoosh to study for GMAT. How would you suggest a non english speaker to approach the foundational content of verbal? On a mock test I got 40% on SC and the Magoosh lessons go through the content without specific grammar exercies, only the SC questions. I'm in doubt between two options:

A) investing in more school-like study of grammar, and I'd most likely do it through manhatam prep foundational book. Most likely 4-8 hours total 
B) Focusing on SC questions and studying the grammar through reviewing missed questions

Thanks. Best

Carcass · Answer

Having the GC grammar book It has ALL you need for the GMAT verbal and also for FREE https://gmatclub.com/forum/ultimate-gma ... l#p1092927 Regards

Mentis678 · Answer

Thanks for the thread. It really helped me a lot during my preparation.

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