GMAT Sample Sentence Correction Questions
Monitoring heart patients' exercise, as well as athletes exercising, is now done by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines.
Monitoring heart patients' exercise, as well as athletes exercising, is now done by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines.
Monitoring the exercise of heart patients, as well as athletes exercising, is now done by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines
Small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines are now used to monitor the exercise of both heart patients and athletes.
Broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines, small transmitters are now used to monitor heart patients' exercise, as well as athletes exercising.
Both athletes exercising and heart patients' exercise are now monitored by small transmitters broadcasting physiological measurements to nearby recording machines.
Answer : C
The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word "natural" to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or nothing that has been synthesized.
or nothing that has been
nor anything that was
and nothing that is
or anything that has been
and anything
Answer : D
Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.
Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.
What brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wage and price controls.
That which brought the ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.
What has brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wages and price controls.
To bring the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War, there was a special price increase during a period of wages and price controls that government sanctioned.
Answer : B
Like Haydn, Schubert wrote a great deal for the stage, but he is remembered principally for his chamber and concert-hall music.
Like Haydn, Schubert
Like Haydn, Schubert also
As has Haydn, Schubert
As did Haydn, Schubert also
As Haydn did, Schubert also
Answer : A
Charlotte Parkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.
including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities
that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities
to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included
Answer : D
that a company's first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse to take calls from likely corporate raiders.
that a company's first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse
that a company's first line of defense in eluding such offers be to refuse even
a company defending itself against offers of this kind that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
companies which are defending themselves against such an offer that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse
that the first line of defense for a company who is eluding offers like these is the refusal even.
Answer : B
Japan received huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, using it to help build a modern industrial system.
Japan received huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, using it to help build
Japan received huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War and used it to help in building
Japan used the huge sums of capital it received from the United States after the Second World War to help build
Japan's huge sums of capital received from the United States after the Second World War were used to help it in building
Receiving huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, Japan used it to help build
Answer : C
Although one link in the chain was demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require the recall of the automobile.
demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require
demonstrated as weak, but it was not sufficiently so that it required
demonstrably weak, but not sufficiently so to require
demonstrably weak, it was not so weak as to require
demonstrably weak, it was not weak enough that it required
Answer : D
Although the Supreme Court ruled as long ago as 1880 that Blacks could not be excluded outright from jury service, nearly a century of case-by-case adjudication has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be drawn from "a fair cross section of the community."
has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be
was necessary for developing and enforcing the principle of all juries being
was to be necessary in developing and enforcing the principle of all juries to be
is necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be
will be necessary for developing and enforcing the principle of all juries being
Answer : A
The modernization program for the steel mill will cost approximately 51 million dollars, which it is hoped can be completed in the late 1980's.
The modernization program for the steel mill will cost approximately 51 million dollars, which it is hoped can be completed in the late 1980's.
The modernization program for the steel mill, hopefully completed in the late 1980's, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
Modernizing the steel mill, hopefully to be completed in the late 1980's, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
The program for modernizing the steel mill, which can, it is hoped, be completed in the late 1980's and cost approximately 51 million dollars.
Modernizing the steel mill, a program that can, it is hoped, be completed in the late 1980's, will cost approximately 51 million dollars.
Answer : E
Camus broke with Sartre in a bitter dispute over the nature of Stalinism.
in a bitter dispute over
over bitterly disputing
after there was a bitter dispute over
after having bitterly disputed about
over a bitter dispute about
Answer : A
Nowhere in Prakta is the influence of modern European architecture more apparent than their government buildings.
more apparent than their
so apparent as their
more apparent than in its
so apparent than in their
as apparent as it is in its
Answer : C
Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damaged by toxic chemicals permits compensating state governments for damage to their natural resources but does not allow claims for injury to people.
compensating state governments for damage to
compensating state governments for the damaging of
giving state governments compensation for damaging
giving compensation to state governments for the damage of
the giving of compensation to state governments for damaging
Answer : A
The lawyer for the defense charged that she suspected the police of having illegally taped her confidential conversations with her client and then used the information obtained to find evidence supporting their murder charges.
used the information obtained to find evidence supporting
used such information as they obtained to find evidence supporting
used the information they had obtained to find evidence that would support
of using the information they had obtained to find evidence that would support
of using such information as they obtained to find evidence that would be supportive of
Answer : D
According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, doubling those reported in the 1977 survey.
doubling those reported in the 1977 survey
to double the number the 1977 survey reported
twice those the 1977 survey reported
twice as much as those reported in the 1977 survey
twice the number reported in the 1977 survey
Answer : E
they still expect to live better than their parents have, but not so well as they once thought they could.
they still expect to live better than their parents have
they still expect to live better than their parents did
they still expect to live better than their parents had
still expecting to live better than their parents had
still expecting to live better than did their parents
Answer : B
Europeans have long known that eating quail sometimes makes the eater ill, but only recently has it been established that the illness is caused by a toxin present in the quail's body only under certain conditions.
Europeans have long known that eating quail sometimes makes
Europeans have long known quail eating is sometimes able to make
Eating quail has long been known to Europeans to sometimes make
It has long been known to Europeans that quail eating will sometimes make
It has long been known to Europeans that quail, when it is eaten, has sometimes made
Answer : A
The caterpillar of the geometrid moth strikes when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed, after capturing its prey, holds the victim so that it cannot escape.
strikes when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed,
striking when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed, but
which strikes when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed,
which, striking when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed,
strikes when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed and,
Answer : E
In assessing the problems faced by rural migrant workers, the question of whether they are better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant.
In assessing the problems faced by rural migrant workers, the question of whether they are better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant.
The question of whether the rural migrant worker is better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant in assessing the problems that they face.
A question that is irrelevant in assessing the problems that rural migrant workers face is whether they are better off materially than the urban working poor.
In an assessment of the problems faced by rural migrant workers, the question of whether they are better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant.
The question of whether the rural migrant worker is better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant in an assessment of the problems that they face.
Answer : D
The sale of government surplus machinery will begin at 9 a.m. and continue until the supply lasts.
will begin at 9 a.m. and continue until the supply lasts
begins at 9 a.m., continuing until the supply lasts
will begin at 9 a.m. and, until the supply lasts, will continue
begins at 9 a.m. and, as long as the supply may last, it continues
will begin at 9 a.m. and continue as long as the supply lasts
Answer : E