McGraw-Hill Education 500 GMAT Verbal Questions to Know by Test Day by Kathy A. Zahler

Author:Kathy A. Zahler
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Published: 2014-04-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 3

Sentence Correction

The following questions present a sentence, part of which or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence, you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

These questions test correctness and effectiveness of expression. In choosing your answer, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words, and sentence construction. Choose the answer that produces the most effective sentence; this answer should be clear and exact, without awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, or grammatical error.

311. The handshake, long used as a means of conducting business, is believed to date to ancient times, where it was a means of showing strangers that the extended hand held no weapon.

(A) where it was a means of showing strangers

(B) having been a means to show strangers

(C) being a means to showing strangers

(D) where it meant of showing strangers

(E) used as means to show strangers

312. The Internal Revenue Service has issued a warning about a phony web page looking essentially identical to a real page that offers products for tax preparers.

(A) looking essentially identical to a real page that offers products for tax preparers

(B) that looks essentially identical to a real page that offers products for tax preparers

(C) having looked essentially identical to a real page that offers products for tax preparers

(D) it looks essentially identical to a real page that offers products for tax preparers

(E) looking identical essentially to a real page that offers products for tax preparers

313. Because they may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria, several grocery stores are recalling Organic Spring Mix salads.

(A) Because they may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria

(B) In case they are contaminated with E. coli bacteria

(C) Because E. coli bacteria may have contaminated them

(D) Fearing the product’s contamination with E. coli bacteria

(E) After having been contaminated with E. coli bacteria

314. Compared to September of the previous year, overall economic activity was up 2.4 percent, as reported the College Index of County Economic Activity.

(A) as reported the College Index of County Economic Activity

(B) shown by the College Index of County Economic Activity

(C) according to the College Index of County Economic Activity

(D) recounted by the College Index of County Economic Activity

(E) along with the College Index of County Economic Activity

315. Building permits typically being a very volatile indicator of growth or decline; for over two years, however, there has been little upward or downward trend.

(A) Building permits typically being a very volatile indicator of growth or decline

(B) Building permits are typically a very volatile indicator of growth or decline

(C) Building permits being typically a very volatile indicator of growth or decline

(D) Building permits have typically a very volatile indicator of growth or decline

(E) Typically, building permits being a very volatile indicator of growth or decline

316. With nine scrap metal facilities in the New England States, most purchasing over the past few

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