II. VERBAL

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 […]

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 […]