Help neeed for verbal section Entirely!

[damsel02]

Hi All,

am a beginner who has started to colect the information on the reading materials that can help me build the basics for verbal section specially the SC and CR.Request you to please help me out!!..I have just 3 months left to wrtie the exam!

[vinnie]

hi
start your preparation with ogs move section wise that is first sc and then along with it cr do it from ogs first as explanation is very neat and then it will build a good base for you and then you can develop on it first start with verbal og and then 11edition og

[yogesh_kkk]

Manhattan SC notes are good for starting

[CACERJ01]

Hi damsel02,

Based on my experience, I suggest you that first use "The Princeton Review" to have a general idea about the Exam. I think that this book is great for beginners

Then, try with both OG 10th and OG 11th to do the exercises and understand the explanations. Because I am a non native speaker, I practiced all the Verbal Section of each OG. I also hear that "Manhattan SC Guide" is a really good book. You can find it at MR-Sentence-Correction-Guide - eSnips, share anything

I hope this helps you. Let me know if you have more doubts
Cheers.

[damsel02]

Thanks a lot!! this information helped..I will start wit hmanhattan and then OG 11...and then the 1000 SC/CR...Thanks again!!

[Makumajon]

Hi, the OG presents crocodile's child in SC. It means you would see not more than 10 major rules (except the idiomatic ones) in their around 400 problems in two books: OG 10 & OG 11. So practicing them and understanding each SC problem should provide you more than 80% success in SC within short time, assuming you have average level success now. Be alert of the following rules:
(1) Subject-verb agreement: Try to identify the subject in single word. Very often, test makers make the subject long by adding successive prepositions at its right or inserting adjective clause (which starts with who, which, that etc.). Read the sentence excluding the prepositional or clause parts to find the single subject quickly. Then see whether the sub matches with its verb.

(2) Pronoun usage: GMAT's favorite! Check whether who, which, that, when used as relative pronouns, have proper referents. The referents must be clear, hence must be very close to the subject, most of the cases at immediate right.

(3) Tense: Keep tense consistent in the sentence. Be careful about past indefinite, perfect etc.

(4) Comparison: Be careful about positive, comparative and superlative degree. as...as, more than..., less...than, more x than y etc. are typical constructions.

(5) Modifier: Understand dangling and other modifiers.

(6) Parallelism: Keep similar parts grammatically similar. To run, walk, and to swim (not swimming) are good exercises.

(7) Practice common frequently encountered idiomatic expressions.Luck!