SC help Pleeeeese

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All the GMAT gurus out there

can you please tell me how you handeled SC questions I just dont seem to get it and right now doing 50% corrrect. I need to pump this up a bit more. 

Appriciate your time and advice and any resources i need to buy or look into on the net


thanks a ton !

rxs0005

HongHu · Answer

My experience is all the wrong answers for a SC question have multiple errors, most of the time. So if you can't eliminate one from one angle, you should look at it from another angle. One of the mistake I used to have is not to look at the rest of the sentence if I believed I knew what the question was testing, but often there could be another appearant error in somewhere else that I haven't looked at.

Would you like me to move this thread to the Verbal forum for it to get more traffic?

rxs0005 · Answer

hong

thanks for the imput you can move it so that it gets more visibility

thanks madam!!

rxs0005

kevinw · Answer

I have been told once, that SC is to find the spots.

when you see a bunch of underlined words, look for where is different
and find our the relations between the subject and the verb.
(hard to explain, as I my mother tongur is Spanish, and the verbs are even more complicated....)

another good source to practice SC, is the TOEFL prep material.

Paul · Answer

There is no use jumping to more advanced SC concepts if you haven't already mastered elementary ones.

Learn first about:
parallellism
misplaced modifiers
verb tense agreements
subject verb agreements
subjunctive mood
idioms
gerunds
pronoun agreement

more "advanced" SC concepts include:
ellipsis
restrictive/non-restr. clauses
phrases vs clauses
run-on sentences
split infinitives
tenses of verb(especially past vs present perfect)
like vs as
which vs that
passive vs active voice
parenthetical elements

This is how I like to categorize SC concepts but one can also find an "advanced" concept to be fairly elementary. There is no substitute to practice and you should do as many problems as you can but try to categorize the problems. You have to know exactly, for 95% of them, what the concepts being tested are. Refer back to them after a few weeks see if you can still justify your answer. Use those learned concepts and apply them to similar problems.

There is just no way you can consistently answer SC questions by solely relying on prep test explanations because reading explanations will not allow you to retain the concepts. You have to try to explain them in your own words and be able to tell why each wrong answers are wrong and why the right one is right. My SC concepts were very shaky in my second GMAT attempt but I read a lot. Most of my reading came from this site: https://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm
I really learned concepts and everytime I would try to explain a more complicated concept, I would read what was said there and try to explain it in my own words.

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