Sentence Correction : Magoosh Blogs by Mike

Hi all,

Last few days, I have been working on Sentence Correction and have been practicing questions from Magoosh source.
For most of the questions that are posted by mikemcgarry you will find a link to his blogs in which you will find a detailed explanation for the question along with the basics of the concepts tested in that particular question. To top it all you will also find couple of additional practice question to substantiate your learning and application of the concept.

I just tried to compile all the links to Mike's Blog on the Magoosh website so all the concepts are just one click away


like vs. as
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-sentence-correction-like-vs-as/

Subject-Verb Agreement
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/subject-verb-agreement-on-gmat-sentence-correction/

Active vs. Passive Voice
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/active-vs-passive-voice-on-the-gmat/

idioms: Can You Believe That?
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-idioms-can-you-believe-that/

Parallelism
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/parallelism-on-the-gmat-sentence-correction/

Idioms: Of Thinking and Knowing
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-idioms-of-thinking-and-knowing/

Logical Splits
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2014/logical-splits-in-gmat-sentence-correction/

Vital Noun Modifiers
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-grammar-vital-noun-modifiers/

Comparative and Quantitative Idioms
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-sentence-correction-comparative-and-quantitative-idioms/

Logical Predication
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/logical-predication-on-the-gmat-sentence-correction/

More on Diction
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2014/more-on-diction/

The Word "However" - This one is my personal favourite
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2016/the-word-however-on-the-gmat/

Past Perfect
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2016/use-past-perfect-gmat-sentence-correction/

The Many Uses of 'That'
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-sentence-correction-the-many-uses-of-that/

with + [noun] + [participle]
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2015/with-noun-participle-on-gmat-sentence-correction/

Logical Splits
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2016/logical-splits-gmat-sentence-correction/

Phrases as Subjects
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2016/gmat-sc-grammar-phrases-subjects/

Gerunds and Gerund Phrases
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-grammar-gerunds-and-gerund-phrases/

Substantive Clauses
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/substantive-clauses-on-the-gmat/

because vs. because of
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-idiom-because-vs-because-of/

Run-On Sentences
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/run-on-sentences-in-gmat-sentence-correction-questions/

Modifiers
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/modifiers-on-the-gmat-sentence-correction/

Dropping Common Words in Parallel
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/dropping-common-words-in-parallel-on-the-gmat/

Pronoun Traps
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-pronoun-traps/

Comparison - Practice Questions
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2016/challenging-comparison-questions-on-the-gmat/

Some more Practice Questions
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-sentence-correction-sample-questions/

Edit-1 - 05-Jun-17

Compound Subjects & Additive Phrases
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2014/compound-subjects-additive-phrases/

"On a White Bus" with subordinate conjuction
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2017/gmat-grammar-subordinate-conjunctions/

Parallelism : Once outsite or twice inside
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-parallelism-once-outside-or-twice-inside/

That Vs Which
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/that-vs-which-on-the-gmat/

"Due to" Mistake
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2016/gmat-sentence-correction-due-mistake

I will keep updating this post in every few days so keep an eye on this...


Hope this post helps you all in understanding those nitty-gritties which can really make a difference to your verbal score
Hit Kudos if it does..!!

And don't forget to thank mikemcgarry for such invaluable blogs ...