Sentence Correction

How to differentiate between verbs and modifiers? When the past and present participle forms of the verb are used as verbs, they often need helping verbs. When they are used as adjectives, they do not use helping verbs. Look at […]

According to scientists who monitored its path, an expanding cloud of energized particles ejected from the Sun recently triggered a large storm in the magnetic field that surrounds Earth, which brightened the Northern Lights and also possibly knocking out a communications […]

Previously, we wrote a post busting some Sentence Correction myths. Let’s continue from where we left.  We discussed how we can have pronouns referring to different antecedents in different clauses of the same sentence. Let’s take another example illustrating that […]

Today we will bust some SC myths using a question. The following are the myths: Myth 1: Passive voice is always wrong. Active voice is preferred over passive voice but that doesn’t make passive voice wrong. Myth 2: The same pronoun […]

Let’s take a look at an official GMAT Prep question today which confuses people about the use of past perfect. In our module, we have discussed all situations in which we use the various tenses. We use past perfect to […]

Read the following sentences: 1. About 70 percent of the tomatoes grown in the United States come from seeds that have been engineered in a laboratory, their DNA modified with genetic material not naturally found in tomato species. 2. The defense lawyer […]

Today, we discuss a couple of questions involving participle modifiers. We will take one question in which you should use the participle and another in which you should not. Let’s see how we decide that. Question 1: In the wake […]

Today, we will take a look at the various “if/then” constructions in the GMAT Verbal section. Let us start out with some basic ideas on conditional sentences (though I know that most of you will be comfortable with these): A conditional sentence (an if/then sentence) […]

We encounter many different types of pronoun errors on the GMAT Verbal Section. Some of the most common errors include: Using a pronoun without an antecedent. For example, the sentence, “Although Jack is very rich, he makes poor use of it,” is incorrect because “it” […]