GMAT English tips 2-2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Misplace modifiers | is created whn a modifier is not adjacent to the things its's intended to modify. They most often appear in sentences that begin with an introductory phrase |
| Quantity words | describe nouns |
| countable words | dollars, fewer, number, many |
| non cuntable | less, amount or quantity, much, money |
| comparing two things | er, more, between |
| comparing three or more things | est, most, among |
| paralel construction | when a sentence includes a list or comparison, each word or phrase in the list or comparison must have the same grammatical structure |
| idioms | fixed expressions, groups of words that are used together. shows up as a secondary errors on sentence correction. To fix idiom erros often involves choosing the right preposition |
| About | Worry....about |
| As 8 | define.......as, regard......as, not so...... as, so...... as to be, think of............. as, see...as, the same..... as, as....as |
| AT | target....at, |
| FOR | responsible for |
| FROM 2 | prohibit.....from, different.....from |
| OVER | dispute over |
| THAT 2 | so....that, hypothesis....that |
| TO BE 2 | believe....to be, estimate....to be |
| TO 8 | forbid....to, ability.....to, attribute....to, require........to, respsibility to, permit....to, superior... to, try....to |
| WITH | credit.....with, associate...with, contrast.....with |
| NO PREPOSITION | consider.....(nothing) |
| MORE THAN ONE PREPOSITION 4 | Distinguish....from, distinguish betweeen...and, native (noun)....of, Native (adjective)....to, |
| COMPARISONS AND LINKS 6 | not only... but also, not....but, either....or, neither....nor, both....and, more...than;less...than |
| As vs. like | as is used to compare actions, like is used to compare nouns |
| Like vs. such as | like means similar, such as means for example |
| The More.... the er | THE MORE you ignore me, the CLOSER i get |
| From...to | scores on the GMAT range FROM 200 TO 800 |
| just as...so too | JUST AS i crossed over to the side, SO TOO will you, my son. |
| MISCELLANEOUS Each vs. all or both | 1.use "each" when you want to emphasize the separateness of the items. 2.use "both" (for two things) or "all" (for more than two things) when you want to emphasize the togetherness of the items |
| Whether vs. if | 1. use "whether" when there are two possibilities 2. use "if" in conditional statements |
| Misplaced modifiers | the rule: a word or phrase that describes something should go right next to the things it modifies. The modifeir is usually an introductory phrase. Make sure that such a phrase describes the noun that follows the comma. A long introdution phrase and it is underline |
| sometimes the introductory phrase is underlined. In this case you can fix the error in two ways | 1. rewrite the phrase so it describes the subject after the comma. 2. change the phrase into a clause. Since a clause has its own subject, there will be no confusion about what it describes |
| parrallel construction Rule | means that words share the same part of speech or that phrases have the same structure The Rule: parallel construction is required of items in a list of comparison |
| Lists | items in a list or series must be parallel. For starters, make sure all the items are all nouns or all verbs. Then, try to match the forms of the nouns or verbs as closely as possible. |
| Comparisons | use comparison words as a hint to check for parallel construction |
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