GMAT Verbal Section : GMAT Sample Sentence Correction Questions
1. Monitoring heart patients’ exercise, as well as athletes exercising, is now done by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines .
1. Monitoring heart patients’ exercise, as well as athletes exercising, is now done by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines.
2. Monitoring the exercise of heart patients, as well as athletes exercising, is now done by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines
3. Small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines are now used to monitor the exercise of both heart patients and athletes.
4. Broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines, small transmitters are now used to monitor heart patients’ exercise, as well as athletes exercising.
5. Both athletes exercising and heart patients’ exercise are now monitored by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines.
Answer : C
2. The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word “natural” to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or nothing that has been synthesized.
1. or nothing that has been
2. nor anything that was
3. and nothing that is
4. or anything that has been
5. and anything
Answer : D
3. Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls .
1. Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.
2. What brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wage and price controls.
3. That which brought the ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.
4. What has brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wages and price controls.
5. To bring the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War, there was a special price increase during a period of wages and price controls that government sanctioned.
Answer : B
4. Like Haydn, Schubert wrote a great deal for the stage, but he is remembered principally for his chamber and concert-hall music.
1. Like Haydn, Schubert
2. Like Haydn, Schubert also
3. As has Haydn, Schubert
4. As did Haydn, Schubert also
5. As Haydn did, Schubert also
Answer : A
5. Charlotte Parkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities .
1. including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities
2. that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
3. with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
4. that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities
5. to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included
Answer : D
1. The odds are about 4 to 1 against surviving a takeover offer, and many business consultants therefore advise that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse to take calls from likely corporate raiders.
1. that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse
2. that a company’s first line of defense in eluding such offers be to refuse even
3. a company defending itself against offers of this kind that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
4. companies which are defending themselves against such an offer that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
5. that the first line of defense for a company who is eluding offers like these is the refusal even.
Answer : B
2. Japan received huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, using it to help build a modern industrial system.
1. Japan received huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, using it to help build
2. Japan received huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War and used it to help in building
3. Japan used the huge sums of capital it received from the United States after the Second World War to help build
4. Japan’s huge sums of capital received from the United States after the Second World War were used to help it in building
5. Receiving huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, Japan used it to help build
Answer : C
3. Although one link in the chain was demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require the recall of the automobile.
1. demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require
2. demonstrated as weak, but it was not sufficiently so that it required
3. demonstrably weak, but not sufficiently so to require
4. demonstrably weak, it was not so weak as to require
5. demonstrably weak, it was not weak enough that it required
Answer : D
4. Although the Supreme Court ruled as long ago as 1880 that Blacks could not be excluded outright from jury service, nearly a century of case-by-case adjudication has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be drawn from “a fair cross section of the community.”
1. has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be
2. was necessary for developing and enforcing the principle of all juries being
3. was to be necessary in developing and enforcing the principle of all juries to be
4. is necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be
5. will be necessary for developing and enforcing the principle of all juries being
Answer : A
5. The modernization program for the steel mill will cost approximately 51 million dollars, which it is hoped can be completed in the late 1980’s .
1. The modernization program for the steel mill will cost approximately 51 million dollars, which it is hoped can be completed in the late 1980’s.
2. The modernization program for the steel mill, hopefully completed in the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
3. Modernizing the steel mill, hopefully to be completed in the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
4. The program for modernizing the steel mill, which can, it is hoped, be completed in the late 1980’s and cost approximately 51 million dollars.
5. Modernizing the steel mill, a program that can, it is hoped, be completed in the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
Answer : E
1. The odds are about 4 to 1 against surviving a takeover offer, and many business consultants therefore advise that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse to take calls from likely corporate raiders.
1. that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse
2. that a company’s first line of defense in eluding such offers be to refuse even
3. a company defending itself against offers of this kind that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
4. companies which are defending themselves against such an offer that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
5. that the first line of defense for a company who is eluding offers like these is the refusal even.
Answer : B
2. Japan received huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, using it to help build a modern industrial system.
1. Japan received huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, using it to help build
2. Japan received huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War and used it to help in building
3. Japan used the huge sums of capital it received from the United States after the Second World War to help build
4. Japan’s huge sums of capital received from the United States after the Second World War were used to help it in building
5. Receiving huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, Japan used it to help build
Answer : C
3. Although one link in the chain was demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require the recall of the automobile.
1. demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require
2. demonstrated as weak, but it was not sufficiently so that it required
3. demonstrably weak, but not sufficiently so to require
4. demonstrably weak, it was not so weak as to require
5. demonstrably weak, it was not weak enough that it required
Answer : D
4. Although the Supreme Court ruled as long ago as 1880 that Blacks could not be excluded outright from jury service, nearly a century of case-by-case adjudication has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be drawn from “a fair cross section of the community.”
1. has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be
2. was necessary for developing and enforcing the principle of all juries being
3. was to be necessary in developing and enforcing the principle of all juries to be
4. is necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be
5. will be necessary for developing and enforcing the principle of all juries being
Answer : A
5. The modernization program for the steel mill will cost approximately 51 million dollars, which it is hoped can be completed in the late 1980’s .
1. The modernization program for the steel mill will cost approximately 51 million dollars, which it is hoped can be completed in the late 1980’s.
2. The modernization program for the steel mill, hopefully completed in the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
3. Modernizing the steel mill, hopefully to be completed in the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
4. The program for modernizing the steel mill, which can, it is hoped, be completed in the late 1980’s and cost approximately 51 million dollars.
5. Modernizing the steel mill, a program that can, it is hoped, be completed in the late 1980’s, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
Answer : E




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