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.

1. Subject Verb Agreement Errors
2. Pronoun Reference and Agreement Errors
3. Verb Tense Errors
4. Modifier Errors
5. Parallelism Errors
6. Idiom Errors

Any question in Sentence Correction includes a combination of these errors and meaning related errors.   For example, consider this question.

Since the first successful organ transplant was performed in the United States in the 1954, a serious problem faced by transplant recipients have been the possibilities that its own body will try to reject or destroy the transplant.

A: have been the possibilities that its own body will try to reject or destroy the transplant. – Subject Verb Agreement & Pronoun Errors
B:  are the possibilities that their own bodies will try to reject or destroy the transplant. – Subject Verb Agreement Error
C:  has been the possibility that its own body will attempt to try to reject or destroy the transplant. – Pronoun & Redundancy Error
D:  has been the possibility that their own bodies will try to reject or destroy the transplant. –Correct
E:  is the possibility that their own bodies will try to reject or destroy the transplant. – Verb Tense Error

This question contains 4 different types of errors spread across the 4 incorrect answer choices.

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