Sentence Correction

Some test-takers wonder whether it is grammatically correct to use multiple tenses in a single sentence. Today we will discuss the cases in which mixing verb tenses is acceptable and those in which this is not. The bottom line is […]

We know that we are often tested on parallelism on standardised tests. The logically parallel entities should be grammatically parallel. But today, we need to talk about circumstances where you might be tempted to employ parallelism but it would be […]

We would like to discuss a bit about conjunctions today – just whatever is relevant for GMAT. We will start by defining the kinds of conjunctions, then move on to the different ways in which they are used, and finally, […]

The word “that” is often found in the daymares of many a GMAT students! The reason for that is that “that” could play various different roles in a sentence: 1. Demonstrative Determiner 2. Demonstrative Pronoun 3. Relative Pronoun Demonstrative Determiner – […]

In this post I would like to talk about restrictive and non-restrictive clauses, about ‘which’ and ‘that’, about when to use a comma and some other such things. Let’s put the questions to rest once and for all. First of […]

In standardized tests, most SC questions involve compound/complex sentences with multiple phrases, clauses and modifiers. Hence it is very likely that you will see some run-on sentences on your test. In the complicated sentences that we get, it is very […]

There is a lot of confusion surrounding the topic of Participles so let’s take a look at it. Quite simply, participles are words formed from verbs which can be used as describing words (on the other hand, gerunds are verbs […]