Hi All,
I have attached 7 Sentence Correction (SC) questions. Can you please advise me of the correct answers and their justifications. These are the questions that I encountered in the official GMATPrep software. So undoubtedly these are extremely representative of the REAL deal.
- TheToastedBread
P.S: The responses marked in the attachments with the dark black dots are wrong (they are mine
). The ones marked with a square blue frame are correct as marked by the software. The problem is I am not able to comprehend why the answers marked in the Blue Frame are correct? Many thanks.
these are my possible explanations...puys, plz correct me if i m wrong :
Q.No.2 :
2 & 4 - 'documenting' is incorrectly used in place of 'documentation of'..this can clearly be distinguished as verb used in place of noun..
3 - the sentence is talking about Mary's contributions...since the sentence starts with "in addition to her works..", it means that her works were already a contribution to archaeology..this statement attempts to exclude Mary's works as a part of her contributions..
5 - i can see two flaws....firstly, the entire tone is in past tense, so the verb should be 'included' and not 'include'...and secondly, 'discovering' cannot be used as a verb here..(i dont knw if i can call it a subordinate verb or as such), but it should have been used as a noun form here so that the statement would hv read as "her contributions included the
discovery of ----- and the
documentation of ----"
Q.No. 3:
2 - "was" is missing...the sentence should hv read as "lightning was still..."
3 - improper use of 'past continuous' tense...the sentence begins in a 'past perfect' tone (...and banks had installed) and should end in a past perfect tone
4 - 'was' used in place of 'were'....there might be some other glaring mistakes, but this simple detection is enough to strike off the option.
5 - 'had been' (past perfect continuous) is incorrect..the correct verb should have been 'was still provided by...'
Q.No.4 :
1 - 'former' is improperly used....the sentence means to convey that "Joan attended more than 400 meetings and reviewed more than 700 applications 'when he was' (as) the chairman of the planning board as well as a board member.
2, 3, 4 - same rule as above...the sentence means to convey.....
Q.No. 5 :
1 - 'which' is improperly used...the sentence implies that the coastal waters expose the remains (i.e. they, on their own accord, try to expose the remains, i.e. they are given life)
3 - 'as opposed to' improperly used...the sentence is making a comparision between shipwrecks and shallow waters whereas the comparision is between shipwrecks found at great depths and shipwrecks found in shallow waters
4 - same reason as 1 as well as incorrect idiom...it should hv read as "more likely to be found in/at ______ than in/at ____)
5 - 'it' is wrongly used and same reason as 3 where 'as opposed to' is replaced by 'instead of'
Q.No.6 :
2 - 'that' is used in place of 'which'...when referring to quantity, 'which' is used and when referring to objects, 'that' is used
3 - 'it' is improperly introduced at 'it holds more than..'
4 - 'while' is incorrectly used..while refers to describing two or more events that take place at around the same time..eg. 'while he does THIS....why dont you do THAT'
5 - improper sentence construction
Q.No. 7 :
1 & 2 - 'imposing' is wrongly used in place of 'that impose'..here imposing refers to action by a third party as a consequence of union-workers being less likely to enroll in insurance plans
3 - improper use of comma...the actual sentence conveys that doctors should see more patients and spend less time with each patient...however, here, the sentence means that the plan should spend less time with each patient
5 - 'requiring' used in place of 'require'....the actual sentence implies that the plan requires stricter limits as well as doctors to see more patients while this statement means that due to stricter limits, the doctors should see more patients..
hope your doubts have been cleard...tc...atb
). The ones marked with a square blue frame are correct as marked by the software. The problem is I am not able to comprehend why the answers marked in the Blue Frame are correct? Many thanks.