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Updated for the 12th Edition of the Official
Guide!
The Sentence Correction Guide (288 pages) takes the guesswork out of grammar
by presenting every major grammatical principle and minor grammatical point
tested on the GMAT. Don’t be caught relying only on your ear; master the
rules for correcting every GMAT sentence.
Each chapter builds comprehensive content understanding by providing rules,
strategies and in-depth examples of how the GMAT tests a given topic and how
you can respond accurately and quickly. The Guide contains a total of 187 "In-Action"
problems of increasing difficulty with detailed answer explanations.
All Strategy Guides come with 6 Full-Length Computer Adaptive
Online Practice GMAT Exams.
Special Features
Purchase of this book includes one year of access to ManhattanGMAT’s online
Sentence Correction Question Bank (accessible by inputting a unique code in
the back of each book).
Manhattan GMAT has categorized all the Sentence Correction problems in The
Official Guides by question type. These categorized problems have been organized
into problem lists that appear in the Sentence Correction Strategy Guide.
Chapter by Chapter:
SENTENCE CORRECTION BASICS: Question Format, Best vs. Ideal, Splits and Re-Splits,
Reading the Entire Sentence
GRAMMAR, MEANING, CONCISION: Choose/Place/Match Your Words, Redundancy, Specific
Patterns of Wordiness (Advanced), False Concision (Advanced)
SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT: Fragments, Middlemen, Warmups, Additive Phrases, Collective
Nouns, Quantity Words, Flipping
PARALLELISM: Parallel Markers, Structures, Idioms, Superficial Parallelism,
Linking Verbs, Concrete vs Action Nouns (Advanced), Parallelism Categories (Advanced)
PRONOUNS: Antecedent Existence, Meaning, Ambiguity, Agreement, Case, Third
Person Personal Pronouns, Demonstratives, Other Pronouns, Placeholder It, Eliminating
Pronouns, Nuances of Pronoun Reference (Advanced)
MODIFIERS: Adjectives, Adverbs, Noun Modifiers, Position Rules and Exceptions,
Relative Pronouns, Subgroup Modifiers, Essential vs. Non-Essential Modifiers,
Verb Modifiers, Use of White, Absolute Phrases (Advanced)
VERB TENSE, MOOD, & VOICE: Simple Tenses, Progressive Tenses (Present and
Past), Tense Sequence, Subjunctive Mood (Hypothetical and Command), If/Then
Voice (Active and Passive), Helping Verbs, Verbals (Infinitives, Gerunds, Participles)
COMPARISONS: Like vs. As, Parallel Comparisons, Omitted Words, Comparative
& Superlative Forms, Numbers, Other Constructions
IDIOMS: Spot-Extract-Replace, Idiom List (197 Entries)
ODDS & ENDS: Connecting Words, Connecting Punctuation, Quantity
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