GMAT Sentence Correction Discussions


According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, which has already been approaching 19 pounds a year, will achieve 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century.

(A) According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, which has already been approaching 19 pounds a year, will achieve 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century.

(B) Already approaching 19 pounds a year in the United States, the National Pasta Association predicts that per-capita consumption of pasta will reach 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century.

(C) The National Pasta association predicts by the twenty-first century that percapita consumption of pasta in the United States, which is already approaching 19 pounds a year, will reach 30 pounds a year.

(D) By the twenty-first century, the National Pasta Association predicts that percapita consumption of pasta in the United States, having already approached 19 pounds a year, will reach 30 pounds a year.

(E) According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States is already approaching 19 pounds a year and will reach 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century.

According to the professor's philosophy, the antidote to envy is one's own work, always one's own work: not thinking about it, not assessing it, but simply doing it.

(A) one's own work, always one's own work: not thinking about it, not assessing it, but simply doing it

(B) always work; because you don't think about it or assess it, you just do it

(C) always one's own work: not thinking about or assessing it, but simply to do it

(D) not to think or assess, but doing one's own work

(E) neither to think about one's own work nor to assess it, it is always simply doing it

Experts pls help in this ques...

kindly explain in detail esp..............usage of " : "

According to United States Air Force officials, a cannon shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate what kind of damage can result when jets fly into a flock of large birds.

(A) shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate

(B) shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved itself helpful as a

demonstration of

(C) shooting dead chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful as demonstrating

(D) that shoots dead chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful to demonstrate

(E) that shoots dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful in demonstrating

Added to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

(A) Added to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

(B) Added to the increase in hourly wages which had been requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

(C) The railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits added to the increase in hourly wages that were requested last July.

(D) In addition to the increase in hourly wages that were requested last July, the railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

(E) In addition to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.


Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure.

(A) if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure

(B) without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure

(C) their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it

(D) without that, they could never be secure about their grip on Algeria

(E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold it

The people of the ancient Near East believed that the Earth's dry land first appeared when the Creator separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there is another ocean in the sky, above the firmament.

(A) appeared when the Creator separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there is

(B) appeared when the Creator had separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there is

(C) appeared when the Creator separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there was

(D) had appeared when the Creator had separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there was

(E) appeared when the Creator had separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there was

The people of the ancient Near East believed that the Earth's dry land first appeared when the Creator separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there is another ocean in the sky, above the firmament.

(A) appeared when the Creator separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there is

(B) appeared when the Creator had separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there is

(C) appeared when the Creator separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there was

(D) had appeared when the Creator had separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there was

(E) appeared when the Creator had separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there was

After July, anyone disposing of or servicing refrigerators must capture the chlorofluorocarbons in the refrigerant chemicals.

(A) anyone disposing of or servicing

(B) those who dispose or service

(C) anyone disposing of or who services

(D) the disposal or repair of

(E) someone who disposes or repairs

After Queen Isabella asked Admiral Columbus to describe the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), which was newly discovered, he had reached for a sheet of paper, crumpled it, and said, "It looks like that-beyond the mountains, more mountains."

(A) After Queen Isabella asked Admiral Columbus to describe the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), which was newly discovered, he had reached

(B) On being asked to describe the new discovery of the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti) by Queen Isabella, Admiral Columbus, reaching

(C) Queen Isabella asked Admiral Columbus to describe the newly discovered island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), then he reached

(D) When asked by Queen Isabella to describe the newly discovered island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), Admiral Columbus reached

(E) After Queen Isabella had asked Admiral Columbus to describe the discovery of the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), he had reached

Detailed explanation of all the SC questions from OG available here

http://gmat.magoosh.com/forum/3299-in-a-review-of-2-000-studies-of

Please help with Parallelism.

1.These things include melting of the polar ice caps and a rise in sea level.

Are **melting of the polar ice caps and a rise in sea level "" parallel.in OA it says Melting of PIC (Gerund... equivalent to noun) || the rise in sea level :- NOUN.i cud not understand .

After the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improved for children, but as late as the nineteenth century about one child in three died before reaching the age of six.

(A) After the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improved for children, but

(B) Even though children's life expectancy, which improved over the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate,

(C) Although life expectancy for children improved after the Colonial period, during which the mortality rate was 50 percent,

(D) While there was an improvement in life expectancy for children after the 50 percent mortality rate of the Colonial period, still

(E) Despite children's life expectancy improvement from the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate,

While the stock market was bouncing back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; between 2001 to 2004, typical household savings plummeted nearly 25% and the median household debt rose by a third.

A. was bouncing back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; between

B. bounced back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession, from

C. has bounced back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; between

D. has bounced back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; from

E. bounced back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; from

"The Achaemenid empire of Persia reached the Indus Valley in the fifth century B.C., bringing the Aramaic script with it, from which was derived both northern and southern Indian alphabets.

"A) the Aramaic script with it, from which was derived both northern and
"B) the Aramaic script with it, and from which deriving both the northern and the
"C) with it the Aramaic script, from which derive both the northern and the
"D) with it the Aramaic script, from which derives both northern and
"E) with it the Aramaic script, and deriving from it both the northern and"

HELP !!


From studies of the bony house of the brain, which is the cranium, located in the back of the skull, come/comes what scientists know about dinosaur brains.

Comes is correct answer.

why is comes correct here . studies is plural so come should be here.

Help !!


To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War.

What is the subject in this case.Why cant Baker be a subject.Please give me some more examples.

solution says "To Josephine Baker ... her " is redundant and awkward; is it something related to pronouns.

Help !!

Nine months after the county banned jet skis and other water bikes from the tranquil waters of Puget Sound, a judge overturned the ban on the ground "of violating state laws for allowing "the use of personal watercraft on common waterways.

1.that it violates state laws that allowed .

2.that it violated state laws allowing.

answer is 2 .but in 1 "laws that allowed " is also in past.why cant 1 be answer.

Help !!

Gone are the sharp edges and jutting planes of styles from former eras; instead, designers of everything from cars to computer monitors have adopted a cornerless style of smooth surfaces and curves that is more ergonomic, conforming to the shape of the body rather than flaunting shape for its own sake.

(A) more ergonomic, conforming to the shape of the body rather than flaunting shape--OA

(B) more ergonomic, conformed to the body's shape and not to flaunting shape

(C) ergonomic, more conformed to the shape of the body and not to shape flaunted

(D) ergonomic, conforming more to the body's shape rather than shape flaunted

(E) ergonomic, conforming more to the shape of the body than flaunting shape

How is "conforming to the shape of the body rather than flaunting shape parallel".parallel sentence should be" conforming to the shape of the body rather than to the ...."plz plz give me reason for every wrong options.plz

Help !!

In Madagascar, the bones of a meat-eating dinosaur, Majungatholus atopus, distantly related to Tyrannosaurus rex and closely resembled South American predatory dinosaurs, have been discovered.

is "distantly related to Tyrannosaurus rex"  not parallel to "closely resembled South American predatory dinosaurs".Answer says so .I think Both are in  past-tense verb ,so parallel. if not , how can we rectify the parallelism in this case ".

The steel industry has changed radically over the last two decades, as large, integrated companies such as Bethlehem Steel once conducted operations from mining at one end of the process to shipping at the other have greatly downsized, or in some cases shut down altogether.
A. as large, integrated companies such as Bethlehem Steel
B. as large, integrated companies, such as Bethlehem Steel, that
C. with large, integrated companies, such as Bethlehem Steel, that
D. while large, integrated companies, such as Bethlehem Steel, that
E. and large, integrated companies such as Bethlehem Steel

Please explain it too.