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In addition to the testing the grammar and meaning, GMAT also introduces errors pertaining to idiomatic usage of words.  Such usage of words does not involve any specific rules.  Thus, in order to identify and correct such errors, one needs to be familiar with the commonly tested idioms.   For example: Not only does GMAT test [...]

Sound understanding of verb tenses is very important to answer GMAT Sentence Correction questions.  Typically in a sentence, all verbs must be expressed in consistent verb tense.  The appropriate tense is determined based on the context of the sentence and accordingly use of the correct verb tense.  As an example, if the sentence states a [...]

A sentence often presents a list of ideas expressed using series of words, phrases, or clauses.  These series talk about one common topic. For such sentences, we need to maintain parallelism i.e. all elements in the series must be written in same grammatical form. For example: Mary cooked food, laying the table, and cleaning the [...]

Modifiers are words that describe other words.  Modifiers can either be single word or phrases (group of words).  Modifiers can act as adjectives, describing nouns or pronouns.  Or they can act as adverbs, describing verbs, clauses, other adjectives. Regardless of whether a modifier is a word or a phrase or what it modifies, when it [...]

GMAT introduces two kinds of pronoun errors: Pronoun Reference Errors Pronoun –Antecedent Agreement Errors Pronoun Reference Error As we saw in this post, pronouns are used in place of nouns to make the sentence more readable and clearly communicate the meaning of the sentence.  This implies that when the reader reads a sentence that uses [...]

In a grammatically sound sentence, the subject and the verb should have same number – Subject and verb must agree in number.  This is one of the basic errors tested on GMAT.  For example: Mary cooks good food. Subject = Mary = singular noun Verb = cooks = singular verb Even though this rule is [...]

GMAT Sentence Correction questions commonly include errors that are based on the meaning and certain grammar topics.  This article lists these specific error types.  For more details on these errors, click on the corresponding link. Subject Verb Agreement Errors Pronoun Reference and Agreement Errors Verb Tense Errors Modifier Errors Parallelism Errors Idiom Errors Any question [...]