Version-2-GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!

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GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors- Version-2

It has been a long overdue as we posted the set of questions related to 9 Most common error types in Sentence Correction  last year  same time and promised we will give the part-2 soon.

So here is the part-2(rather version-2) of this project.

Here is the project objective.

We will be posting some of the tricky questions from previous years for your reference each day which are not discussed for a while now. There will 5-7 questions posted everyday in this thread based on the topics (e.g. Modifiers, SV- agreement etc).

Below is the schedule for the same.

25 Sep 2014 --Day-1--Subject-verb agreement errors,
 26 Sep 2014 --Day-2--Grammar, meaning, concision errors,
 27 Sep 2014 --Day-3--Parallelism errors,
 28 Sep 2014 --Day-4--Pronoun errors,
 29 Sep 2014 --Day-5--Modifier errors,
 30 Sep 2014 --Day-6--Verb tense, mood and voice errors,
 01 Oct 2014 --Day-7--Comparison errors,
 02 Oct 2014 --Day-8--Idiomatic errors
 03 Oct 2014 --Day-9--Sentence structure and style errors.

Here is what you need to do!!  
  1. Review the questions which is not being discussed or you may have missed them.
2. Review the expert replies
3. Best part- Provide alternative explanations on those threads and Kudos for best explanation!

With that being said, I guess all are following the   New GMAT Club project ----->  Race Against The GMAT Club Timer

Participate & win access to the GMAT Club tests!!

Gnpth · Accepted Answer

Day-1 : Subject-Verb Agreement

1.  Taste buds are onion-shaped structures with between 50 and 100 taste cells

2.  Holly Johnson, the openly homosexual former frontman of Frankie

3.  Research has shown that the ancient Mesoamerican ballgame

4.  The cytokines of the immune system, acting as signalers to adjacent cells

5.  The European Union announced that cod and mackerel are the only fish

JarvisR · Answer

Thank you Gnpth for the initiative.

Gnpth · Answer

Day-2: Grammar, meaning, concision errors

1.  The largest trade-book publisher in the US has announced the creation

2.  After its international debut, the progress of the Cube towards the toy shop

3.  Online matrimonial sites are becoming extremely popular in India where anxious

4.  Although offering a dynamic range simply absent on the harpsichord, the original fortepiano

5.  Using hidden cameras that are triggered by motion

6.  Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály

7.  What is as remarkable as Shostakovich's writing of a caustically satirical musical in the Soviet Union

Gnpth · Answer

Day-3: Parallelism

1.  One complaint about recently developed “care” robots

2.  In his earlier poems, William Butler Yeats often used mythical imagery

3.  Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than nonunion members

4.  Geologists believe that the warning signs for a major earthquake may

5.  After the contractual dispute between the organizations had been resolved

6.  In the search for alien life, astronomers have recently begun studying a promising region

Gnpth · Answer

Hey sorry. Completely held up with my travel this weekend. Will posting for both yesterday's and today's list in a while.

Gnpth · Answer

Day-4: Pronoun Errors

1.  By merging its two publishing divisions, the company will increase

2.  Though his neighbors were shocked and even feared his family would take on animal characteristics

3.  A dedication by Colin Powell, given in the same year as his appointment as chairman

4.  During hot summer days to reduce the effect of sun’s ultraviolet rays on the skin

5.  Etymologists have encountered similar linguistic features in widely varying language groups

6.  Announcing that one of its key successes had been the recent well-received beta launch

Gnpth · Answer

Day-5: Modifier Errors

1.  Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany

2.  According to a recent study linking high social standing to a habitually stern facial expression

3.  According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house

4.  The characteristic phenomenon of mass suicide by thousands of lemmings year after

5.  Unlike conventional thinking that early tribes of Apache had reached the American Southwest

6.  The most widely known images of Yosemite National Park

Gnpth · Answer

Day-6: Verb tense, Mood and Voice Errors

1.  In 1860, the Philological Society launched its effort to create a dictionary

2.  In its most popular episode, the TV show ‘Them & I' featured a football coach

3. Before its independence in 1947, Britain ruled India as a colony

4.  Researchers have explored the possibility that dolphins

5.  Although his early critics had viewed Christopher Marlowe as a talented

6.  Until Antoine Lavoisier proved otherwise in the eighteenth century

Gnpth · Answer

Day-7: Comparison Errors

1.  According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became

2.  That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections

3.  According to the National Science Foundation, in 2003 there were 198,113 female

4.  Over 75% of the energy produced in France derives from nuclear power

5.  As a result of medical advances, many people that might at one time have died as children

6.  Studies of fitness tests show that playing basketball has a markedly

Gnpth · Answer

Day-8: Idiom Errors

1.  One of Ronald Reagan’s first acts as President was to rescind President Carter’s directive

2.  Stalactites and stalagmites, accretions of minerals formed over time by dripping water

3.  While Jackie Robinson was a Brooklyn Dodger, his courage in the face

4.  In his book, Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, generally regarded as the father of economics

5.  Until Antoine Lavoisier proved otherwise in the eighteenth century, many scientists had believed

6.  A recent United States Census Bureau report shows that there are more than three times

Gnpth · Answer

Day-9: Sentence Structure & Style Errors

1.  The peaks of a mountain range, acting like rocks in a streambed, produce ripples

2.  Flamboyant sybarites that they were, the later generations of Roman kings held parties

3.  Since hydrogen has very little mass, no hydrogen was retained in the interior of the earth

4.  The addition of Mr. Stevens, who is a rare critic of the company and betting its stock will fall

5.  The Missouri Compromise of 1820, a legislative effort to mediate the radical differences between slaveholders

6.  For more than five decades, the IMF has been implementing its structural adjustment policies

Gnpth · Answer

Bumping up for review, for benefit of the folks.

bvg · Answer

Its absolutely beneficial posting questions in this format, Instead of just putting up a list. That way one cannot practice with timer and
it would lead to incoherent comment sections 
I hope others who post questions in this forum also post them individually so they are easy to practice and followup.

pujakundugmat · Answer

can i get few more links like this one, which will cover important common errors?

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