GMAT Sentence Correction Flashcards
In a review of 2,000 studies of human behavior that date back to the 1940s, two Swiss psychologists, declaring that since most of the studies had failed to control for such variables as social class and family size, none could be taken seriously.
(A) psychologists, declaring that since most of the studies had failed to control for such variables as social class and family size,
(B) psychologists, declaring that most of the studies failed in not controlling for such variables like social class and family size, and
(C) psychologists declared that since most of the studies, having failed to control for such variables as social class and family size,
(D) psychologists declared that since most of the studies fail in controlling for such variables like social class and family size,
(E) psychologists declared that since most of the studies had failed to control for variables such as social class and family size,
E
Manufacturers rate batteries in watt-hours; if they rate the watt-hour higher, the longer the battery can be expected to last.
(a) if they rate the watt-hour higher, the longer
(b) rating the watt-hour higher, it is that much longer
(c) the higher the watt-hour rating, the longer
(d) the higher the watt-hour rating, it is that much longer that
(e) when the watt-hour rating is higher, the longer it is
C
Although a surge in retail sales have raised hopes that there is a recovery finally under way, many economists say that without a large amount of spending the recovery might not last.
(A) have raised hopes that there is a recovery finally
(B) raised hopes for there being a recovery finally
(C) had raised hopes for a recovery finally being
(D) has raised hopes that a recovery is finally
(E) raised hopes for a recovery finally
D
At the end of the 1930s, Duke Ellington was looking for a composer to assist him—someone not only who could arrange music for his successful big band, but mirroring his eccentric writing style as well in order to finish the many pieces he had started but never completed.
(a) someone not only who could arrange music for his successful big band, but mirroring his eccentric writing style as well in order to finish
(b) someone who could not only arrange music for his successful big band, but also mirror his eccentric writing style in order to finish
(c) someone who not only could arrange music for his successful big band, but also to mirror his eccentric writing style in finishing
(d) that being someone who could not only arrange music for his successful big band, but mirroring his eccentric writing style for finishing
(e) being someone not only who could arrange music for his successful big band, but mirror his eccentric writing style as well, finishing
B
Of all the vast tides of migration that have swept through history, maybe none is more concentrated as the wave that brought 12 million immigrants onto American shores in little more than three decades
(a) maybe none is more concentrated as
(b) it may be that none is more concentrated as
(c) perhaps it is none that is more concentrated than
(d) maybe it is none that was more concentrated than
(e) perhaps none was more concentrated than
E
Diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nation’s third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.
(A) ranks as the nation’s third leading cause of death, surpassed only
(B) rank as the nation’s third leading cause of death, only surpassed
(C) has the rank of the nation’s third leading cause of death, only surpassed
(D) are the nation’s third leading causes of death, surpassed only
(E) have been ranked as the nation’s third leading causes of death, only surpassed
A
The intricate structure of the compound insect eye, having hundreds of miniature eves called ommatidia. help explain why scientists have assumed that it evolved independently of the vertebrate eye.
(A) having hundreds of miniature eyes called ommatidia* help explain why scientists have assumed that it
(B) having hundreds of miniature eyes that are called ommatidia, helps explain why scientists have assumed that they
(C) with its hundreds of miniature eyes that are called ommatidia, helps explain scientists’ assuming that they
(D) with its hundreds of miniature eyes called ommatidia, help explain scientists’ assuming that it
(E) with its hundreds of miniature eyes called ommatidia, helps explain why scientists have assumed that it
E
In late 1997, the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza were closed to visitors for cleaning and repair due to moisture exhaled bv tourists, which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing on the walls.
(a) due to moisture exhaled by tourists, which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing
(b) due to moisture that tourists had exhaled, thereby raising its humidity to such levels that salt from the stone would crystallize
(c) because tourists were exhaling moisture, which had raised the humidity within them to levels such that salt from the stone would crystallize
(d) because of moisture that was exhaled by tourists raising the humidity within them to levels so high as to make the salt from the stone crystallize
(e) because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such levels that salt from the stone was crystallizing
E
In 1979 lack of rain reduced India’s rice production to about 41 million tons, nearly 25 percent less than those of the 1978 harvest.
(A) less than those of the 1978 harvest
(B) less than the 1978 harvest
(0 less than 1978
(D) fewer than 1978
(E) fewer than that of India’s 1978 harvest
B
The widely accepted big bang theory holds that the universe began in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and has been expanding ever since.
(A) that the universe began in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and has been expanding
(B) that the universe had begun in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and had been expanding
(C) that the beginning of the universe was an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago that has expanded
(D) the beginning of the universe to have been an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago that is expanding
(E) the universe to have begun in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and has been expanding
A
Like the idolization accorded the Brontes and Biownings, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are often subjected to the kind of veneration that blurs the distinction between the artist and the human being.
(A) Like the idolization accorded the Brontes and Brownings,
(B) As the Brontes’ and Brownings’ idolization,
(C) Likethat accorded to the Brontes and Brownings,
(D) As it is of the Brontes and Brownings,
(E) Like the Brontes and Brownings,
E
