The Critical Reader: The Complete GMAT Sentence Correction Guide

The Complete GMAT Sentence Correction Guide by the Critical Reader delivers a handbook that covers all the grammatical concepts along with examples for the GMAT Sentence Correction section. Every chapter in the book contains a set of exercises for every section, answers key, answer, and explanations. Understanding the chapters allows the candidates to recognize their weak sections and correct them in better ways. This book also contains 150 GMAT multiple choice questions followed by detailed explanations.

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About the GMAT Sentence Correction

GMAT Sentence Corrections are considered to be the most straightforward questions. Unlike Reading Comprehension and GMAT Critical Reasoning questions, which enquire about considerable amounts of information, GMAT Sentence Corrections are always limited to one sentence. GMAT SC questions, provide a mass of information, some of which are relevant and some of which are not. Candidates need to distinguish between information that is relevant to answering the question.

Here are a few things that you must know during your GMAT preparation to ace the sentence correction section:

• The names of the GMAT grammatical rules, such as -pluperfect conditional, subjunctive, and more.
• Spelling
• GMAT Vocabulary
• Outside knowledge of topics discussed in GMAT SC question

The Complete GMAT® Sentence Correction Guide (2021 Edition) is priced at $21.95(INR 1,652.23)

Sentence Correction Cheat Sheet 

1) Don’t ignore the non-underlined portion of the sentence; it may include key information.
2) Shorter = Better
3) Non-essential clauses are often used to distract from errors and “pad” sentences. Cross out to make sentences easier to manage.
4) Alternating singular and plural verbs = subject-verb agreement question. –S = singular; no –S = plural.
5) “Subject + conjugated verb” & nouns usually = right; –ING usually = wrong (with the exception of participles used to join clauses).
6) Make sure it(s) and they/their agree with their referents.
7) Which often = wrong answer. This word must refer back to the noun that immediately precedes it. The referent cannot just be implied.
8) Which = comma, that = no comma.
9) Where = places, not times, books, works of art, etc.
10) Whose = both people and things. Who = people only, which = things only.
11) Due to usually = wrong.
12) Use such as, not like, to introduce examples. Note that the construction such + noun + as is correct.
13) A participial phrase (e.g. having gone, written in) at the start of a sentence usdangling modifier. ually =
14) Make sure modifiers (adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases) are placed next to the words they are intended to modify.
15) Know top word pairs: not…but, both…and, between…and, so/such…that, from…to, (n)either…(n)or, just as…so.
16) Amount, much, less = singular nouns; number, many, fewer = plural nouns.

TOC of the Book

Here is the topic that is covered in the book:

Why should one buy the Complete GMAT Sentence Correction Guide? 

GMAT exam is an important and complex examination for which students need to be prepared well enough to ace the exam effectively. GMAT sentence correction books are extremely helpful during your GMAT verbal preparation. Excelling and enhancing these areas would help students acquire higher GMAT Scores. The Critical Reader: The Complete GMAT Sentence Correction Guide contains a lot of conceptual questions that help students to master this section.

Along with a good study plan and GMAT Prep Books candidates must patient and disciplined to get desired results.