December 31st, 2021

New Video! GMAT Sentence Correction Basics (Edited 12 31 21)

GMAT (and ACT, SAT, GRE, etc.) Sentence Correction Basics: This version has been edited to correct a copyright problem (using YouTube's "trim" function caused put the sound out of sync). GMAT (and ACT, SAT, GRE, etc.) Sentence Correction Basics: The basics of sentence correction questions for standardized tests. This is mainly aimed at the GMAT (test for those who want to attend graduate business school after college), but these tactics will also help people studying for the GRE (people who want to attend other graduate schools), as well as people studying for the SAT, ACT, and other standardized tests.

​• Who’d Like This: Students studying for the GMAT, GRE, SAT, ACT verbal sections, and other standardized reading tests. Quick Links to the Subjects Covered in this Video: • D’oh! The copyright owners of Rush’s The Necromancer (probably NOT Rush) won’t let me use 10 seconds of that song, so I had to cut out. The same applies to the old School House Rock Conjunction Junction song (I used about 20-something seconds of that song). So if those sections sound weird, that’s why. I have fixed the jump links the best I can.

• Sentence Correction for Standardized Tests.
The Ground Rules. 0:33
• More Ground Rules. 1:46
• The Best Choice is Only the Best of the Choices, Not the Best Possible Expression. 2:26
• Doing Sentence Correction Quickly. 4:18
• Example of “Two for the Price of One” and “Least Bad Answer.” 5:23
• Doing Sentence Correction Quickly. 7:06
• Use Your Internal “Ear” to Eliminate Wrong Choices. 7:59
• Clues from the Questions. 8:33
• As You Do Each Question in Practice: 10:53
• Grammar: An Overview. 11:49
• A Clause. 12:38
• Modifiers. 14:30
• M-Prep’s “Sentence Core.” 17:02
• Conjunctions. 17:51
• Manhattan Prep’s “Markers.” 20:38
• Return to Meaning. Sentences Must Be Logical. 22:09
• Basic Sentence Rule: Noun and Working Verb. 26:04
• Another Sentence Rule: A Sentence is a Strong, Independent Clause. 27:51
• Nouns and Verbs Must Agree in Number. 29:12
• The Rule “of” Prepositional Phrases. 30:10
• Modifier vs. Compound Subject. 31:02
• The Basic Rule is “Take Out the Trash.” 31:55
• Sentence Core. 32:36
• Connecting Two Independent Clauses. 35:00
• Don’t Use “;” or a FANBOYS Conjunction to Join a Dependent Clause to an Independent Clause. 40:13
• Semicolons Can Also Be Used as Meta-Commas. 42:13
• Problem Set pp. 41-42. 43:12
• Modifiers Revisited: Adjectives and Adverbs. 1:07:51
• The Case of “Only.” 1:08:45
• Example from M-Prep. 1:10:00
• Modifiers vs. Core. 1:13:00
• How to Eliminate Wrong Modifier Answers. 1:15:24
• Markers for Modifiers- How to Tell What’s What. 1:17:00
• Prepositional Phrases, Gerunds & Past Tense – Oh My! 1:19:04
• Past Tense (Mostly “-ed”) Modifiers. 1:20:48
• “Which” vs. “-ing” Modifiers. 1:22:45 • Also Watch for Misplaced Modifiers. 1:25:26
• Multiple Noun Modifiers. 1:27:53
• The Take Away: Select the Choices That Put Nouns Closest to their Modifiers. 1:32:23
• Possessive Nouns. 1:33:08
• Markers for Noun Modifiers. 1:34:54
• “Where” and “When.” 1:38:08
• Adverbial Modifiers. M-Prep Example. 1:39:40
• Modifier Markers: Prepositions. 1:41:59
• M-Prep Multiple Noun Modifiers Example. 1:46:49
• More Modifier Markers. 1:46:49
• Subordinators. 1:55:56
• Noun-Verb-That-Noun-Verb. 1:58:39
• Another Way to Fix This Problem… 2:01:51
• Grammar “By the Numbers." 2:04:46
• Problem Set. Page 66-69 2:11:28
• This Should Help You With The Basics of Sentence Correction. Now Practice! in M-Prep GMAT. 2:42:04

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