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GMAT Verbal - Sentence Correction Quiz 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
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.

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

e)

if approved by the governor, would decrease teachers

2.

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

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

e)

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

3.

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

a)

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

b)

the basic draft Thomas Jefferson completed in a week.

c)

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

d)

Thomas Jefferson completed the basic draft in a week.

e)

Thomas Jefferson in a week completed the basic draft.

4.

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

a)

Unlike an oboe and clarinets

b)

Unlike oboes and clarinets

c)

Different than oboes and clarinets

d)

Unlike a clarinet or oboes

e)

Differing from oboes and clarinets

5.

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.

a)

is maybe the more difficult for determination

b)

is probably the most difficult to determine

c)

is maybe the most difficult for determination

d)

is probably the more difficult to determine

e)

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

6.

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

a)

five fewer than those of Beethoven

b)

five fewer than Beethoven

c)

five less than Beethoven

d)

five less than those of Beethoven

e)

five less than the symphonies of Beethoven

7.

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.

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

e)

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

8.

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

a)

much less books and still is above the minimum number

b)

many fewer books and still be above the minimum number

c)

many less books and still be above the minimum amount

d)

much fewer books and still is above the minimum number

e)

many fewer books and still above the minimum amount

9.

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.

a)

practical unlimited access to find and repair defects

b)

practical unlimited access to finding and repairing defects

c)

practically unlimited access to find and repair defects

d)

practically unlimited access for finding and repairing defects

e)

practically unlimited access for finding defects and repairing them

10.

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.

a)

integrated more closely than never before and

b)

closely integrated more than ever before so

c)

more closely integrated as never before while

d)

more closely integrated than ever before and that

e)

more than ever before closely integrated as

11.

Migraine, the most debilitating common form of headache, afflicts perhaps 18 million Americans, who collectively lose 64 million workdays a year, and they cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost work time.

a)

year, and they cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost

b)

year and thus cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost

c)

year, so as to cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost

d)

year that costs the nation $50 billion in lost medical expenses and

e)

year, which thus cost the nation $50 billion in lost medical expenses and

12.

According to the international investment memorandum recently signed in Geneva, France is one of the 4 European nations planning to provide fewer tax incentives for foreign investment in production of heavy industrial machinery.

a)

planning to provide fewer

b)

planning to provide less

c)

planning on providing fewer

d)

which is planning on providing fewer

e)

that is planning to provide less

13.

The European Union’s competition chief says she mostly looks stuff up on Qwant, which prides itself on not tracking users in the manner its larger rival does.

a)

which prides itself on not tracking users in the manner its larger rival does.

b)

that prides itself on not tracking users in the manner its larger rival does.

c)

which pride themselves on not tracking users in the same manner their larger rival does.

d)

that prides itself on not tracking users the manner in its larger rival does.

e)

which prides itself on not tracking its users in the manner their larger rival does.

14.

The type of behavior exhibited when an animal recognizes itself in a mirror comes within the domain of “theory of mind,” thus is best studied as part of the field of animal cognition.

a)

of “theory of mind,” thus is best

b)

“theory of mind,” and so is best to be

c)

of a “theory of mind,” thus it is best

d)

of “theory of mind” and thus is best

e)

of the “theory of mind,” and so it is best to be

15.

Analysts and media executives predict the coming year to be no less challenging than the previous one had been for the company's C.E.O.

a)

the coming year to be no less challenging than the previous one had been

b)

the coming year to be no less challenging compared to the previous one

c)

that the coming year would be no less challenging compared to the previous one

d)

that the coming year will be no less challenging than the previous one had been

e)

that the coming year will be no less challenging than the previous one

16.

Migraine, the most debilitating common form of headache, afflicts perhaps 18 million Americans, who collectively lose 64 million workdays a year, and they cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost work time.

a)

year, and they cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost

b)

year and thus cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost

c)

year, so as to cost the nation $50 billion in medical expenses and lost

d)

year that costs the nation $50 billion in lost medical expenses and

e)

year, which thus cost the nation $50 billion in lost medical expenses and

17.

The males of the species are more interested than the females in collecting food, spending the majority of their time in the deep waters searching for small fish and other edibles.

a)

than the females in collecting food, spending the majority of their time in the deep waters searching

b)

than the females are in collecting food, in spending the majority of their time in the deep waters and in searching

c)

in collecting food than the females, spend the majority of their time in the deep waters and search

d)

in collecting food than the females, spending the majority of their time in the deep waters and searching

e)

in collecting food than are the females, who spend the majority of their time in the deep waters searching

18.

After Junko lay down, having finished a hard day's work, sleep descended on her like a soft blanket.

a)

having finished a hard day's work, sleep descended on her

b)

having finished a hard day's work, she felt sleep descend on her

c)

sleep descended on her having finished a hard day's work

d)

having finished a hard day's work, sleep had descended on her

e)

having completed a hard day's work, sleep descended on her

19.

Michelangelo, it is believed, had made his sculpture of David using an eight-inch plaster model that was recently discovered after being lost for nearly 300 years.

a)

Michelangelo, it is believed, had made his sculpture of David using an eight-inch plaster model that was recently discovered after being

b)

An eight-inch plaster model is believed to have been used by Michelangelo for his sculpture of David and recently discovered after it was

c)

An eight-inch plaster model believed to have been used by Michelangelo for his sculpture of David has been discovered after having been

d)

It is believed that an eight-inch plaster model that Michelangelo used for his sculpture of David and has recently been discovered after it was

e)

It is believed that Michelangelo used an eight-inch plaster model for his sculpture of David, and it was recently discovered after having been

20.

It was only after Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963 that it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and it was under her command that the paper won high praises for its unrelenting reporting of the Watergate scandal.

a)

It was only after Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963 that it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and it was under her command that the paper won high praises

b)

It was only after Katharine Graham's becoming publisher of The Washington Post in 1963 that it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and under her command it had won high praises

c)

Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963, and only after that did it move into the first rank of American newspapers, having won high praise under her command

d)

Moving into the first rank of American newspapers only after Katharine Graham became its publisher in 1963, The Washington Post, winning high praise under her command

e)

Moving into the first rank of American newspapers only after Katharine Graham's becoming its publisher in 1963, The Washington Post won high praise under her command