SC Tips.....

[dgmspn2]

Hey can anybody tell me the link from where i can download sahil notes

[heeman]

Hi my name is Alon Cohen. I am from Uruguay and I have been preparing for 8 months for the GMAT because i want to get a 700. I am an engineer so i have already mastered mathematics, but believe it or not, i cannot get over a 50 percentile in verbal.
i practice, practice, and practice and cannot achieve my goal. I read your post and i hope you could help me in sentence correction. i was wondering if you have all the rules written down for me to memorize because i bought many books and they are very superficial and not very helpful. also, if you had some advice on how to get a good score on critical and reading without having read in english all my life.
thank you so much and waiting for your response,
alon

[amitx]

hi,
i need to understand 1 thing.....there are so many rules that its very easy to forget and get confused.
so,how to catch hold of these rules to get a SC correct?
mugging up all words will make me crazy.
Thanks
A

[Aaragorn]

hi heeman, its nice to know that you are doing good in quant, and for english well unfortunately it doesnt get any easier than this. Not that im trying to discourage you but believe me people with lesser verbal knowledge did very well in GMAT after they mastered verbal techinques like these. Here i'd like to repeat Princeton Verbal Workout to make things a bit easier.... it says there are 5 important things you need to look for when you're doing SCs, they are
1) Using Misplaced Modifiers
2) Using improper pronouns
3) Changing the verb tense unnecessarily
4) Parallelism
5) Comparing Apples and Oranges

these are some of the important points that one needs to master if one is looking forward to do well in SC. so i recommend u start with these and in no time im sure you'll find that u r able to answer most of the questions and then in due course u would be able to tackle the other aspects of verbal.

And for RC again - practice and practice. the best way is to do as many possible excercises from 1000 RC and 1000 SC and im sure u would do equally well in verbal as you are in quant.
all the best.

Hi Amit, well the best way to get a hold on all the SC rules is to first go thru the rules and get a basic understanding of what they're trying to tell. and the next step is to do as many practice questions as possible, because practicing many questions from say 1000 SC would necessitate the use of perhaps all the rules that are discussed above and that would help u understand and more importantly REMEMBER the question type and the rule involved.

hope this helps,
all the best for your prep

[pravin_ece]

I would like to add some comments on the differences between WHICH and THAT.

WHICH is used to introduce non-essential modifiers-- (not necessary to identify that noun.)
THAT is used to introduce essential modifiers-- (necessary for identifying that noun.)
For ex: (From Manhattan SC)
Non-essential: To find my house, walk down the left side of the street until you reach the third house, which is red.
Essential: To find my house, walk down the left side of the street until you reach the third house that is red.

The first sentence Non-essential, leads you to the third house where as the second house leads you to the third red house.

[gschmilinsky]

Maybe this link would be useful: http://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-sent...tecedents.html (Antecedents)

[GMAT_Hobbes]

These are these things which i check in a SC question...

• Meaning
• subject – verb agreement
• Inverted verb – subject agreement
• passive voice
• double negative
• elliptical sentences
• it without referent
• ambiguous pronouns
• possessive poison pronoun / modifier
• apple to orange comparisons
• numbers in comparison
• that / those
• less / fewer than
• modifier – subject agreement
• parallelism
• maintain tense
• present perfect tense
• past perfect tense
• present continuous tense
• do replace regular verbs not auxiliary verbs
• either X or Y, each should go independently
• gerund – completed actions / infinitive – future actions
• –ing form in cause & effect
• subjunctive sentences
• conditional sentences
• such firms
• more than doubled
• with + noun + being + complement

These are the notes which i have prepared from various sources.

1. Subject – Verb Agreement
a. Middleman
b. Middleman “of”
c. And / or
d. SANAM Pronouns
e. Inverted verb – subject
2. Verb Tense

• • Split Infinitive = Incorrect
  • Maintain Tense ( check the use of present / past perfect tense)
  • Present / Past Perfect Tense
  • If = conditional / Whether = Choice
  • Subjunctive Sentences ( HPDR)
  • Passive Voice = Incorrect

3. Pronouns

• • Pronoun must match the noun in number and place (check for the noun)
  • Possessive Poison
  • That / those
  • Check it without referent

4. Modifier

• • Dangling modifier
  • Adjectival modifiers should not be separated from the noun
  • Possessive Poison Modifier (Bill’s Score)
  • Adverbial Modifier does not need to touch the verb.
  • Which should modify only a noun, not a sentence
  • Whose can modify a non living thing
  • A is B, an X (without any relative pronoun) and Y, which… Here Which modifies B NOT Y (Separated by Comma)

5. Parallelism

• • That / who / by / to / to have, had / will / in / by what, by when / in which
  • “To be & is” are parallel / to & be are parallel
  • False parallelism
  • X to be Y

6. Comparisons

• • Apple to orange
  • Comparisons should match in numbers

1. The numbers of = incorrect
2. Run on sentences = incorrect
3. Only the statement that precedes the colon must be able to stand alone.
4. do it / do so
5. whether or not = incorrect; whether to = correct
6. Gerunds – Completed actions / Infinitives – Future actions.
7. Cause & Effect – 2nd phrase should have a –ing from.
8. Unless introduces Conditional like IF. Conditionals don’t use future tense.
9. Look out for Peculiar words.
10. Comma should be there before which.
11. Equivalent to / Equal to = mostly used for uncountable nouns
12. independent facts do not need a “Although”
13. as = for instance
14. For all = despite.
15. once is preferable than one time
16. Mere is the correct usage as it denotes equivalence to a specific number. Merely may refer to anything that is near.
17. Use “the” numbers like “the more than 50000 slaves” to denote the whole…
18. AS is used for ongoing process. WHILE is used for contrasts.
19. As ongoing process (Cause), effect.
20. if only because = if that is only reason
21. grounds for + noun, grounds to + verb
22. Since should not be (Not Always) used as because… Since is associated with time…
23. When we use dependent and independent clause. We generally give stress in independent clause... and the proper construction is "Dependent clause then Independent clause...”
24. Independent clause + Independent Marker(also, consequently, furthermore, however, moreover, nevertheless, and therefore) + Independent Clause.

Have few more.. Couldnt post now... some servor problem... will do it later.

[Sal-Ka]

Believe X to be Y
Believe it ____or believe that it ____ ---> always wrong
Rate of___ ---> wrong
Rate for ___----> Correct !!
X is attributed to Y
Extent to
be endangered by X of
be in danger of
require sn. to do sth.
require that x do sth.
as much as = so much as but the latter one will be used with negative sentence
invest in
research to + V
order sn. to do sth.
after when --- > wrong
sn. is expected to do sth.
Both---and---
not only---but also-----
from---to
range ---- from----
either--- or ----
neither---or---
However + adj.+S+V,-------

[ajasra]

My contribution


Each of/ One of + Plural NounA sentence like ‘X is one of the Y that are. Are is the correct use. Such a sentence always should have a subject verb agreement with Y and not with X.
The noun after every and each is singular and the verb is also singular.

Each new day is different.
Every room is being used.

The noun or pronoun after "every one of" and "each of" is plural, but the verb is singular.
Every one of the children was crying.
Each of us sees the world differently.

The pronoun that refers to the phrase with each or every can be singular (formal) or plural (informal).
Each girl wore what she liked best.—Each is singular
Every person made their own travel arrangement.---Every is plural.

Also
Collective Nouns like group, team, assembly, species, committee, clergy, enemy, group, family, and team.

A collective noun takes a singular verb when it refers to the collection considered as a whole, as in
The family was united on this question or
The enemy is suing for peace.

It takes a plural verb when it refers to the members of the group considered as individuals, as in "My family are always fighting among themselves" or "The enemy were showing up in groups of three or four to turn in their weapons".

RegardsAJasra

[venkat8103]

The idoms i remebered since the day i started my preparation :

Targeted at
Modeled After
Aid in
Rates for
X attributs to Y / X is Attributed to y
Prefer to
Credited with
Debate Over
Protest Against