Sentence Correction GMAT Strategy Guide (Manhattan Gmat Prep) - Softcover

Manhattan Gmat Prep

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ISBN 10: 0981853366 ISBN 13: 9780981853369

Publisher: Manhattan Prep Pub, 2008

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Description: The Sentence Correction Guide (288 pages) takes the guesswork out of grammar by presenting every major grammatical principle and minor grammatical point tested on the GMAT. Don’t be caught relying only on your ear; master the rules for correcting every GMAT sentence.Each chapter builds comprehensive content understanding by providing rules, strategies and in-depth examples of how the GMAT tests a given topic and how you can respond accurately and quickly. The Guide contains a total of 187 "In-Action" problems of increasing difficulty with detailed answer explanations. Special Features: Purchase of this book includes one year of access to ManhattanGMAT’s online Sentence Correction Question Bank (accessible by inputting a unique code in the back of each book). Manhattan GMAT has categorized all the Sentence Correction problems in The Official Guides by question type. These categorized problems have been organized into problem lists that appear in the Sentence Correction Strategy Guide. Chapter By Chapter: 1. SENTENCE CORRECTION BASICS: Question Format, Best vs. Ideal, Splits and Re-Splits, Reading the Entire Sentence 2. GRAMMAR, MEANING, CONCISION: Choose/Place/Match Your Words, Redundancy, Specific Patterns of Wordiness (Advanced), False Concision (Advanced) 3. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT: Fragments, Middlemen, Warmups, Additive Phrases, Collective Nouns, Quantity Words, Flipping 4. PARALLELISM: Parallel Markers, Structures, Idioms, Superficial Parallelism, Linking Verbs, Concrete vs Action Nouns (Advanced), Parallelism Categories (Advanced) 5. PRONOUNS: Antecedent Existence, Meaning, Ambiguity, Agreement, Case, Third Person Personal Pronouns, Demonstratives, Other Pronouns, Placeholder It, Eliminating Pronouns, Nuances of Pronoun Reference (Advanced) 6. MODIFIERS: Adjectives, Adverbs, Noun Modifiers, Position Rules and Exceptions, Relative Pronouns, Subgroup Modifiers, Essential vs. Non-Essential Modifiers, Verb Modifiers, Use of White, Absolute Phrases (Advanced) 7. VERB TENSE, MOOD, & VOICE: Simple Tenses, Progressive Tenses (Present and Past), Tense Sequence, Subjunctive Mood (Hypothetical and Command), If/Then Voice (Active and Passive), Helping Verbs, Verbals (Infinitives, Gerunds, Participles) 8. COMPARISONS: Like vs. As, Parallel Comparisons, Omitted Words, Comparative & Superlative Forms, Numbers, Other Constructions 9. IDIOMS: Spot-Extract-Replace, Idiom List (197 Entries) 10. ODDS & ENDS: Connecting Words, Connecting Punctuation, Quantity

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About the ManhattanGMAT Strategy Guides

The ManhattanGMAT Strategy Guides offer students a unique balance between two competing emphases: test-taking strategies and in-depth content understanding. Most prep courses focus on the strategic portion of the GMAT - timing, shortcuts, etc. However, we believe that unless a student has a solid understanding of the content, the tricks won't be of any use. Therefore, we include practice problem sets that build specific foundational skills in each topic as well as advanced content that many other prep books ignore.

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There are three features that we believe distinguish ManhattanGMAT from other GMAT preparation companies.Instructors: We feel that teaching excellence is the key to student success. We ensure that our Instructors are the very best in a number of ways: All Instructors must have scored a 99th percentile overall on the official GMAT (currently a 760+). They also must have prior teaching experience in order to be considered. All Instructors must undergo a rigorous audition process to be extended an offer – historically, we accept approximately 1 in 5 applicants who meet the above standards. Instructors then undergo a 100+ hour training process before being allowed to see students. In order to attract and retain the best teachers, we pay $100/hour for all teaching assignments, plus bonuses. This is up to 4 times the industry standard, and the highest in the industry. Content-Based Curriculum: We believe that the best GMAT curriculum should provide students familiarity with the math, grammar, and analytical principles that the GMAT tests. Accordingly, we strive to re-teach students the 8th and 9th grade math tested on the GMAT as well as the grammar and logic that many students may never have studied. Other GMAT test prep programs on the market focus on teachable methods, such as “process of elimination” and "backsolving" techniques. Our GMAT course curriculum is different; it seeks to provide test takers of all levels with content mastery and an organized approach that builds skills for every question type on the exam, including the most advanced content that many other prep companies ignore. Focus: As our name implies we teach only one test: the GMAT. This means that all of our time, energy, and resources are spent developing strategies for the GMAT's unique content rather than for the generic standardized exam. Our specialized focus gives our students an edge that "all-in-one" test prep companies cannot provide.

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