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    GMAT® Official Guide Supplement: Sentence Correction Basics
    GMAT® Official Guide Supplement: Sentence Correction Basics
    GMAT® Official Guide Supplement: Sentence Correction Basics
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    GMAT® Official Guide Supplement: Sentence Correction Basics

    By Jack Oren Jackman

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    About this ebook

    This GMAT sentence correction guide was created by examPAL and its team to help non-native English speakers to understand, remember, and strengthen their understanding of the English language.
    The guide covers topics like Subject-Verb agreement, Nouns, Pronouns, Choosing the correct form of a verb, Modifiers, Parallelism, and Idioms.
    If you are serious about cracking the GMAT Verbal section, get this guide now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherexamPAL
    Release dateFeb 13, 2017
    GMAT® Official Guide Supplement: Sentence Correction Basics

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    • 5/5
      It is a great book for setting your fundamentals right .... :)
    • 5/5
      At first, I thought that the title had a typo. Then I got the humor... and found myself reading and practicing effortlessly. What a straightforward guide! I'm not a native English speaker, which is actually an advantage - as this book shows, their depenancy on intuition and commonly used phrases leads to poor performance on the GMAT verbal. The language is clear and simple, but in a way that English speakers wouldn't find annoying - on the contrary, the three friends I sent it to loved it!
      I would mention, though, that I missed some of the things I found in other prep books, but then again, after taking the GMAT 3 times, I don't believe I saw in the real test anything that wasn't covered here. It was what I needed and just what I needed. It's a pity I didn't know about it when I prepared to my first 2 tests. I won't disclose my V30-ish scores in them, but with my recent V45 I had to show my appreciation. Thank you so much!!!
    • 4/5
      great in-depth knowledge on all the basics. Could have added practice questions

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    GMAT® Official Guide Supplement - Jack Oren Jackman

    Subjects and Verbs in General

    A verb is the action that happens in the sentence, such as sit, smile, or was known. A subject is the person or thing that is doing or receiving the action, such as boys, she, the box, or Hollywood.

    A sentence must have both a subject and a verb: The boys go to school; a woman smiled at me; or Hollywood is known as the birthplace of the movie industry. A sentence without a verb or without a subject is not a complete sentence.

    For example:

    After walking all day, thought that swimming in cold water would be a great idea.

    That's wrong: who was walking? Who thought? This sentence has no subject.

    Correct: After walking all day, I thought that swimming in cold water would be a great idea.

    We can now realize that it was I who was walking, and it was I who thought.

    Another example:

    Nice people good businessmen.

    Wrong! Good is not a verb. The missing verb is are (a form of to be):

    Nice people are good businessmen.

    Subject and verb must match in number

    This means that if the subject is singular (one), then the verb must be in the singular form as well, such as: Jack drinks milk every day. If the subject is plural (more than one), then we have to use the plural verb form: Jack and Jill drink milk every day (without the s at the end of the verb).

    And and other additive phrases

    When we added Jill to Jack by using and, we turned the subject from singular into plural. The word and is the only way of adding that turns a singular subject into plural. When we use other ways of combining subjects, such as together with or in addition to, the subject is whatever comes before the phrase between commas or is otherwise outside of that phrase:

    Milk, together with sugar, is the basis for every good ice cream. In addition to sugar, milk is the basis for every good ice cream.

    More examples for additive phrases are: also, along with, as well as, accompanied by, including, and besides. 

    Or; either… or...; neither… nor…

    These phrases may use either a singular or a plural verb form, depending on which noun is closest to the verb:

    Jenny or her neighbors usually take the dog out.

    Neither Sharon nor her birds are singing.

    Since the neighbors and the birds are plural, the form of the verbs take and be should also be in the plural.

    but

    Her neighbors or Jenny usually takes the dog out.

    Neither the birds nor Sharon is singing.

    Since Jenny is singular and so is Sharon, so is the form of the verb: takes and is.

    Words that only sound plural

    In some cases, certain words that look plural are actually singular, and words that look as if they are singular are actually plural:

    Media, data, phenomena, and criteria are all plural, although they are most often not used correctly. Their singular forms are medium, datum, phenomenon, and criterion.

    Series, species, and means all sound and look plural, but they can be either singular or plural,

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