Sentence Correction

When should you use “like” and when should you use “as” in a sentence? Both words can be used in comparisons, however the structure of the sentence will be different in the two cases. This is because traditionally, “like” is a preposition and “as” is […]

Today we will look at some official GMAT questions testing the “like” vs. “as” concept we discussed before. Take a look at the following GMAT Sentence Correction question: Question 1: As with those of humans, the DNA of grape plants […]

Today, let’s take a look at another type of modifier – the prepositional phrase. A prepositional phrase will begin with a preposition and end with a noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause – the “object” of the preposition. The object of the […]

Languages evolve over centuries and are dynamic even today. What was not acceptable a few years ago, may become a part of common parlance tomorrow and what was acceptable a couple of decades ago may be too old school today. […]

Parallelism is one of the most common errors tested on standardized tests, and debatably, one of the most tricky too! At times, due to the complexity of the sentence, we may not realise that elements should be in parallel; at […]

Recall the golden rule of past perfect tense – The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past. We often […]

Sometime back, we talked about participles and how they are used on the GMAT. In that post, we had promised to discuss gerunds more in depth at another time. So today, as promised, we’ll be looking at gerunds. Before we […]

On quite a few occasions, we find ourselves explaining the difference between the terms “few” and “a few” – a subtle, but very important distinction which has, on occasion, completely changed the meaning of a sentence. Hence, we realized that a […]

In a previous post, we looked at verb tenses and noted that there is no restriction on how many tenses we can use and mix within a sentence, as long as they are appropriate for the context of the sentence. The problem […]

Let’s look at a type of Verbal today – to-Infinitives The infinitive is the base form of a verb. The infinitive has two forms: • the to-infinitive = to + base • the zero infinitive = base We will discuss the to-infinitive […]