GMAT Verbal - Sentence Correction Quiz 1

The controversial restructuring plan for the county school district, if it is approved by the governor, will make there be fewer teachers in schools throughout the county.

• if it is approved by the governor, will make there be fewer teachers

• if the governor approves it, would result in the amount of teachers going down

• if the governor approves it, would have the result of decreasing the number of teachers

• if approved by the governor, would result in a reduction of the number of teachers

• if approved by the governor, would decrease teachers

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CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.8.3A

CCSS.L.2.1F

If you don’t want anymore champagne, then don’t come to the bar anymore.

• If you don’t want anymore champagne, then don’t come to the bar anymore.

• If you don’t want any more champagne, then don’t come to the bar anymore.

• If you don’t want any more champagne, then don’t come to the bar any more.

• If you don’t want anymore champagne, then don’t come to the bar any more.

• If you don’t want any more champagne, then don’t come to the bar any more.

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Named a member of the committee to draw up a Declaration of Independence, the basic draft was completed by Thomas Jefferson in a week.

• the basic draft was completed by Thomas Jefferson in a week.

• the basic draft Thomas Jefferson completed in a week.

• the basic draft which was completed by Thomas Jefferson in a week.

• Thomas Jefferson completed the basic draft in a week.

• Thomas Jefferson in a week completed the basic draft.

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Unlike an oboe and clarinets, which are subject to built-in obsolescence caused by constant wiping of the wooden bore, bassoons last indefinitely.

• Unlike an oboe and clarinets

• Unlike oboes and clarinets

• Different than oboes and clarinets

• Unlike a clarinet or oboes

• Differing from oboes and clarinets

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CCSS.L.3.1G

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.2.1E

Of all the events leading to the formation of the Earth, the catalyst for the infinite mass of matter that caused the Big Bang is maybe the more difficult for determination.

• is maybe the more difficult for determination

• is probably the most difficult to determine

• is maybe the most difficult for determination

• is probably the more difficult to determine

• is, it may be, the determination that is most difficult

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CCSS.L.3.1G

Although Johannes Brahms lived longer than Beethoven, his collected works include only four symphonies, five fewer than those of Beethoven.

• five fewer than those of Beethoven

• five fewer than Beethoven

• five less than Beethoven

• five less than those of Beethoven

• five less than the symphonies of Beethoven

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CCSS.L.3.1G

In a review of 2000 studies of human behavior that date back to the 1940's, two Swiss psychologists, declaring that since most of the studies had failed to control for such variables as social class and family size, none could be taken seriously.

• psychologists, declaring that since most of the studies had failed to control for such variables as social class and family size,

• psychologists, declaring that most of the studies failed in not controlling for such variables like social class and family size, and

• psychologists declared that since most of the studies, having failed to control for such variables as social class and family size,

• psychologists declared that since most of the studies fail in controlling for such variables like social class and family size,

• psychologists declared that since most of the studies had failed to control for variables such as social class and family size,

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

The library at the state college could have much less books and still is above the minimum number required by state educational standards.

• much less books and still is above the minimum number

• many fewer books and still be above the minimum number

• many less books and still be above the minimum amount

• much fewer books and still is above the minimum number

• many fewer books and still above the minimum amount

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CCSS.L.3.1G

Scientists dream of one day creating armies of nanobots, tiny robots smaller than a cell, that can enter the human body and use their practical unlimited access to find and repair defects in bodily structures.

• practical unlimited access to find and repair defects

• practical unlimited access to finding and repairing defects

• practically unlimited access to find and repair defects

• practically unlimited access for finding and repairing defects

• practically unlimited access for finding defects and repairing them

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CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1A

The financial crash of October 1987 demonstrated that the world’s capital markets are integrated more closely than never before and events in one part of the global village may be transmitted to the rest of the village—almost instantaneously.

• integrated more closely than never before and

• closely integrated more than ever before so

• more closely integrated as never before while

• more closely integrated than ever before and that

• more than ever before closely integrated as

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CCSS.L.3.1G