Modifiers Articles
GMAT Sentence Correction: How to Find the Core Sentence - Part 7
Welcome to the latest installment of our Core Sentence series on SC problems! If you haven’t seen this series before, start here . Last time , we talked about how [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: What Can the Underline Tell You?
I ran across the problem below when I was reviewing a GMATPrep® test that I took a while back, and as soon as I saw it, I knew I needed [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: How To Find the Core Sentence - Part 5
A while back, I wrote a series on how to strip a Sentence Correction (SC) problem down to its core. A lot of my students have told me that this [...]
How to Tackle Every Single GMAT Problem (Seriously!) - Part 4
Welcome to the fourth installment of our series: how to tackle every problem on the GMAT. If you’re joining in the middle, go back and learn about the set of [...]
How to Tackle Every Single GMAT Problem (Seriously!) - Part 3
Welcome to part 3 of our series on how to answer every single GMAT problem you’ll ever see. :) If you haven’t already read the earlier installments, start with part [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: How To Find the Core Sentence - Part 4
It’s here at last: the fourth and final installment of our series on core sentence structure! I recommend reading all of the installments in order, part 1 , part2 , respectively [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: How to Find the Core Sentence - Part 2
Welcome to the second installment of our Core Sentence series; if you haven’t yet read Part 1 , do so now before continuing with this segment. How has your practice [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: How To Find the Core Sentence - Part 1
Recently, I was discussing sentence structure with one of my classes and we practiced a crucial but difficult GMAT skill: how to strip an SC sentence to its core components. [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: Where Do I Start? - Part 3
Welcome to the third part of our series focusing on the First Glance in Sentence Correction . If you haven’t read the previous installments yet, you can start with how [...]
Can you Spot the Meaning Error? - Part 3
Welcome to the final installment in a series of three articles about meaning and sentence structure in sentence correction. Our first one tested meaning and also covered issues related to [...]
Can you Spot the Meaning Error? - Part 2
Last time , we tried a problem that tested meaning; we also discussed how to compare entire chunks of the answer choices. Today, we're going to combine those two things [...]
Can you Spot the Meaning Error? - Part 1
Sentence Correction tests grammar, yes, but it also tests meaning. In fact, a decent chunk of grammar actually revolves around meaning in the first place. Try this GMATPrep® problem from the [...]
What’s This Mean? When to Use Common Sense on Sentence Correction
I totally understand why the test writers want to test meaning on SC – after all, business communication hinges more on meaning than anything else. Nobody’s going to care if [...]
Comparisons and Parallelism in GMATPrep
Last time , we took a look at a Comparisons problem; in today’s article, we’re going to examine another one. This question is from the free problem set included in the [...]
Comparisons in GMATPrep Sentence Correction
I’ve got a fascinating (and infuriating!) GMATPrep® problem for you today; this comes from the free problem set included in the new GMATPrep 2.0 version of the software. Try it out [...]
Comparing Things in GMATPrep Sentence Correction
I’ve got a fascinating little GMATPrep® problem for you today. Try it out (1 minute 15 seconds) and then we’ll talk about it! * ” As the honeybee’s stinger is heavily [...]
Where are the Splits? Handling the “New” SC
A lot of students have reported lately that the Sentence Correction questions on the official test were a lot harder than what they were expecting, or that they’ve been having [...]
Meaning is Mean! A GMATPrep Sentence Correction Problem
We’ve talked a lot about meaning in sentence correction recently and I’ve got another problem along that same theme for you. The problem I chose comes from the new GMATPrep [...]
Modifiers and Meaning: a GMATPrep Sentence Correction Problem
We’ve been examining the issues of modifiers and meaning quite a bit lately because these topics are both so important on the GMAT. I’ve got another one for you today. This [...]
Modifiers and Meaning: a GMATPrep Sentence Correction Problem
Modifiers have always been commonly tested on the GMAT and emphasis on meaning has increased recently. In addition, these two areas can often be quite tricky – it’s hard to [...]
Analyzing a Tough GMATPrep Sentence Correction Problem
Yesterday we tried to crack a GMAT quant problem , so today we're looking for the correct answer to a GMAT verbal question. It’s been a while since we’ve tackled [...]
Dealing With Partial Underlines in Sentence Correction (Part 2)
Last time, we introduced a new way of dealing with partial underlines : explicitly trying to figure out how the non-underlined (and therefore correct) part of the sentence fits with [...]
What to Memorize for the GMAT: 5 More Must-Know Grammar Rules
In the first post of our “What to Memorize for the GMAT Verbal” series, we covered the business and logic vocabulary you should know for the test. In the second [...]
What to Memorize for the GMAT: 5 Must-Know Grammar Rules
In the first post of our “What to Memorize for the GMAT” series, we covered the business and logic vocabulary you should know for the test. Next up: grammar rules. Like [...]
Thursdays with Ron - The "which" Modifier
Every other Thursday, our instructor Ron Purewal (known on the Beat The GMAT forums as lunarpower ) hosts a free study hall session, called Thursdays with Ron , where anyone [...]