Following the Few Important Sentence Correction Tips in the Reading Comprehension.
- Look out for : none, each,....pronoun number errors.
- Verb agreement with subject w.r.t. number, tense, etc.
- Modifiers...recognize them.
- Possessive case --it's not the subject.
- Dangling Modifiers -- Modifiers which have no subject --- wrong!!
- Almost always Modifiers come immediately after the word they modify!
- IF Vs WHETHER - If-- hypothetical.... whether -- when you have to choose among options
- Maintain PARALLELISM -- rather than, instead of, to X is to Y, etc.
- Look out for Sentences starting with "to"...maintain parallelism
- BOTH -- only two things!! and parallel too!!
- Look out for COMPARISONS -- LIKE, UNLIKE, SIMILAR TO...compare same types (number, type, etc.)
- Look for countable and non-countable nouns. (amount, sum,etc.)
- THAT Vs WHICH ...that is restrictive...which is non-restrictive.
- LIKE Vs AS ... like expresses similarity ... As compare clauses
- SUCH AS --; to give examples .. such X as x1, x2, x3.
- JUST AS --; again to compare actions, not nouns.
- BECAUSE Vs IN THAT ...because shows cause and effect ... in that is mostly correct on the GMAT.
- USUAL Vs IS USUAL ... usual... compared to itself... is usual...when compared to a sub-group it belongs to.
- NATIVE OF Vs NATIVE TO ... Native of is used for a person...native to is corrector person/thing..everything else.
- CAN Vs COULD -- can = ability, opportunity, possibility. could = assumption, condition, polite request, suggestion
- WOULD --; a condition in the past, anticipation in the past.
- BECAUSE Vs ON ACCOUNT OF --; former is preferred over the latter. both are correct.
- ECONOMIC Vs ECONOMICAL --; Economic is economy related... Economical is Money-saving
- 'Declining revenues' -- ; is plur.
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