Awkward sentences..

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pinktoadette: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 15; Joined: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:46 am

Awkward sentences..

by pinktoadette » Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:43 pm

Hello.
I seem to have a problem. 70% of the time, I picked the awkward sentence. The explanation is simply awkward sentence and other choices have detailed explanation. I guess I don't know how to find awkwardness in a sentence? Does anyone have any suggestions? I don't want to be awkward anymore...

Many thanks!!!

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by tanviet » Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:38 am

Yes. I do not know how to realize awkward sentence.

the best way is to remember specific cases.

for example, "of noun of noun" is awkward because "of" is used 2 times. I do not remember other cases

However,gmat want to have a grammatical sentence before a beautiful sentence. So,we check for grammar error before check for meaning logic and style. That means gmat accept an award sentence not a ungrammatical sentence if there are only these sentences left. gmat will accept beautiful sentence not award sentence if these sentences exist.

ok, remember specific cases and check grammar first.