GMAT - Graduate Management Admission Verbal: Sentence Correction Flashcards
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Which sentence correctly uses the subjunctive mood?
Answer: The board recommended that the CEO resign immediately.
After verbs of recommendation, demand, or suggestion, the subjunctive requires the base form of the verb (resign), not a conjugated form.
Which option corrects the comparison error: 'The profits of Company A are higher than Company B'?
Answer: The profits of Company A are higher than those of Company B.
Comparisons must be between parallel elements; 'profits' must be compared to 'profits' (represented by 'those'), not to 'Company B' itself.
Which sentence correctly uses 'fewer' vs. 'less'?
Answer: The firm hired fewer analysts this quarter than last.
'Fewer' is used with countable nouns like 'analysts,' while 'less' is reserved for uncountable or mass nouns.
Which version avoids the redundancy error: 'The reason the merger failed was because of poor integration'?
Answer: The reason the merger failed was poor integration.
'The reason was because' is redundant; the correct construction is 'The reason was [noun phrase]' or 'The merger failed because.'
Choose the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement: 'A number of applicants ___ waiting for the interview results.'
Answer: A number of applicants are waiting for the interview results.
'A number of' is an indefinite expression treated as plural, while 'the number of' is treated as singular.
Which sentence correctly uses a semicolon?
Answer: The market expanded rapidly; however, profit margins declined.
A semicolon correctly joins two independent clauses; conjunctive adverbs like 'however' follow the semicolon and are themselves followed by a comma.