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8 Basic Principles of Sentence Correction
- 1) Understand the Directions
- 2) Keep agreement between subject and verb
- 3) Keep modifier as close as possible to the word or clause that it modifies
- 4) A pronoun must agree with its antecedant and refer to only one antecedent
- 5) Make sure that a verb tense reflects the sequence of events
- 6) Keep similar elements in a sentence parrallel to each other
- 7) Compare like things only
- 8) Use your ear to detect correct IDIOMS
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1) Understand the Directions
A ) No change
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2) Keep agreement between subject and verb
- - Verbs must agree with their subjects (verbs ending in ING are awlays incorrect)
- - Singular subjects have singular verbs
- - Plural verbs have plural subjects
- - GMAT separates subject and verb with lots of text
- - Difficult to determine if subject is plural
- - Collective nouns and singular subjects... "a group of students" = singular collective nous are always singular
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3) Keep modifier as close as possible to the word or clause it modifies
- - Adjectives modify Nouns (BIG, RED, FAT)
- - Adverbs modify Verbs (FAST, QUICKLY, SLOW)
- * Look for modifier errors that make a modifier appear to desribe a word that it actually doesn't
- **WHEN A SENTENCE BEGINS WITH A MODIFIER IT IS INCORRECT FOR GMAT
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4) A pronoun must agree with its Antecedant
and refer to only one Antecedent.
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4) Two types of Pronoun errors:
1) Reference 2) Agreement
it, its, they, their, them, which, that
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5) Make sure that a verb tense reflect the sequence of events
Matter of grammer and logic.
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6) Parrallelism
Consistency:
- "Will you travel by train, by boat, or by car?"
- "WIll you travel by plane, boat or cat?"
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7) Compare like things only
Grammatically and logically similar
- You cant compare:
- - a person to a quality
- - a single item to a group
- You have to compare:
- - one individual to another
- - one quality to another
- - one group to anohter
- * like
- * as
- * compared to
- * less than
- * more than
- * other
- * that of
- * those of
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8) Idioms (examples)
- - Regarded as
- - Considered to be (never considered as)
- - Like never means for example
- - "which" must follow a comma and there must be a noun before the comma OR
- - must follow a preposition (in which)
- - Where must refer to an actual location
- -When must refer to an actual time
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