Posts tagged ‘english grammar’

June 15th, 2010

Sentence Correction

Each sentence correction question consist of one sentence and part or all of that sentence is underlined. The underlined part is the one to correct.

A representative of the Internal Revenue Service usually finds most people are willing to cooperate during an audit, yet they become agitated, defensive, and suspect computer error.

  • most people are willing to cooperate during an audit, yet they become agitated, defensive, and suspect
  • most people to be willingly cooperative during an audit , and they are also agitated, defensive , and they suspect
  • that most people are willing to cooperate during an audit, and they become agitated, defensive , and suspicious of
  • that people are mostly willing to cooperate during an audit, and they become agitated, defensive, and suspicious of
  • that most people are willingly cooperative during an audit, yet they are becoming agitated, defensive, and suspect

The 1rst answer is always the same in the sentence.

Rather than cramming than lots of exercises., I’m giving you a good direction set, a “bullet proof” method. This GMAT type of question tests your grammar skills.
ETS defends a correct answer because all the others are worse. The other answers have minor grammtical flaws . This leads to “Process of Elimination”

  1. DO NOT rephrase the sentence in your head and look for a match among the choices
  2. Train yourself to find grammatical mistakes
  3. Get rid of the choices that have the same grammatical flaw as the original sentence
  4. Use Process of Elimination to play the answer choices off each other.
  5. If you’re down to tqwo choices, find the flaw in the wrong one.