Gmat Official Guide 13
The Official Guide for GMAT@ Review 13th Edition
9.6 Practice Questions the sentence correction questions presents a sentence, part or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. Follow the requirements of standard written English to choose your answer, paying attention to grammar, word choice, and sentence construction. Select the answer that produces the most effective sentence; your answer should make the sentence clear, exact, and free of grammatical error. lt should also minimize awkwardness, ambiguity, and redundancy.
Each of Although a surge in retail sales have raised hopes that there is a recoverv finallv under way, many economists say that without a large amount of spending the recovery might not last.
1.
In a review of 2,000 studies of human behavior that
3.
date back to the 1940s, two Swiss psvchologists, declaring that since most of the studies had failed to control for such variables as social class and family size. none could be taken seriously.
(A) psychologists, declaring that since most of the studies had failed to control for such variables as social class and family size,
(B) psychologists, declaring that most of the
(C) (D) studies failed in not controlling for such variables like social class and family size, and psychologists declared that since most of the studies, having failed to control for such variables as social class and family size, psychologists declared that since most of the studies fail in controlling for such variables like social class and family size, psychologists declared that since most of the studies had failed to control for variables such as social class and family size,
4.
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
have raised hopes that there is a recovery finally raised hopes for there being a recovery finally had raised hopes for a recovery finally being has raised hopes that
9.6 Practice Questions the sentence correction questions presents a sentence, part or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. Follow the requirements of standard written English to choose your answer, paying attention to grammar, word choice, and sentence construction. Select the answer that produces the most effective sentence; your answer should make the sentence clear, exact, and free of grammatical error. lt should also minimize awkwardness, ambiguity, and redundancy.
Each of Although a surge in retail sales have raised hopes that there is a recoverv finallv under way, many economists say that without a large amount of spending the recovery might not last.
1.
In a review of 2,000 studies of human behavior that
3.
date back to the 1940s, two Swiss psvchologists, declaring that since most of the studies had failed to control for such variables as social class and family size. none could be taken seriously.
(A) psychologists, declaring that since most of the studies had failed to control for such variables as social class and family size,
(B) psychologists, declaring that most of the
(C) (D) studies failed in not controlling for such variables like social class and family size, and psychologists declared that since most of the studies, having failed to control for such variables as social class and family size, psychologists declared that since most of the studies fail in controlling for such variables like social class and family size, psychologists declared that since most of the studies had failed to control for variables such as social class and family size,
4.
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
have raised hopes that there is a recovery finally raised hopes for there being a recovery finally had raised hopes for a recovery finally being has raised hopes that