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    The document is a GMAT practice worksheet for sentence correction questions focusing on modifiers. It provides 10 questions testing grammar rules around modifiers. The directions explain that the goal is to learn techniques and rules, not focus on speed, and to use provided resources as needed.

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    GMAT Practice Worksheet: Sentence Correction

    (MODIFIERS)
    Objective: The purpose of this worksheet is to give you practice solving GMAT
    Sentence Correction problems using the knowledge and techniques learned in Game
    Plan for the GMAT and taught in the video lesson “Sentence Correction - Part 2.”

    Directions: Take as much time as you need to apply your grammar rules and answer
    each question. Use the book and videos if necessary. Do not be concerned with time;
    learning the techniques and relevant grammar rules is what is important.

    1. Unlike her sister Heather, who would always put spiders safely outside if she found
    them in the house, Joanne’s fear kept her from going anywhere near the creatures.

    (A) Joanne’s fear kept her from going anywhere near the creatures
    (B) Joanne’s fear is what kept her from going anywhere near the creatures
    (C) fear is why Joanne had not gone anywhere near them
    (D) Joanne was too afraid to go anywhere near the creatures
    (E) they scared Joanne too much to go anywhere near them

    2. Widely regarded as the greatest American chess player in history, Bobby Fischer’s
    prominence came as a child, winning the U.S. Open at the age of thirteen and
    becoming a grandmaster at age fifteen.

    (A) Bobby Fischer’s prominence came as


    (B) Bobby Fischer’s prominence came when he was
    (C) it was Bobby Fischer coming to prominence as
    (D) Bobby Fischer came to prominence as
    (E) his prominence came to Bobby Fischer as
    3. Jenny’s dream was to become the first female mayor of her home city, but while
    running in the mayoral election, cancer was detected and another candidate had to
    be chosen.

    (A) while running in the mayoral election, cancer was detected and another
    candidate had to be chosen.
    (B) while running in the mayoral election, Jenny’s cancer was detected and
    another candidate had to be chosen.
    (C) while running in the mayoral election, cancer was detected and another
    candidate was chosen.
    (D) while running in the mayoral election, the cancer was detected and another
    candidate was chosen.
    (E) while running in the mayoral election, a cancer was detected and another
    candidate was chosen.

    4. Beautifully sanded and re-varnished, Bill proudly displayed the antique desk in his
    den.

    (A) Beautifully sanded and re-varnished, Bill proudly displayed the antique desk
    in his den.
    (B) Beautiful, sanded, and re-varnished, Bill proudly displayed the antique desk in
    his den.
    (C) An antique, and beautifully sanded and re-varnished, in his den Bill proudly
    displayed the desk.
    (D) Bill, beautifully sanded and re-varnished in the den, proudly displayed the
    antique desk.
    (E) Bill proudly displayed the antique desk, beautifully sanded and re-varnished,
    in his den.

    5. The Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania affords the visitor with unequaled opportunities
    to photograph lions playing in trees without the aid of telephoto lenses.

    (A) The Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania affords the visitor with unequaled
    opportunities to photograph lions playing in trees without the aid of telephoto
    lenses.
    (B) The Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania permits the visitor unequaled
    opportunities to photograph lions playing in trees without the aid or telephoto
    lenses.
    (C) The Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania gives the visitor the unequaled
    opportunity to photograph lions playing in trees without telephoto lenses.
    (D) The visitor to the Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania has the unequaled
    opportunity to photograph lions playing in trees without the aid of telephoto
    lenses.
    (E) Even without the aid of telephoto lenses, the visitor to Tanzania’s Lake
    Manyara Park has an unequaled opportunity to photograph lions playing in trees.
    6. Entering professional tennis as a talented but shy and awkward teenager, for the past
    eight years Steffi Graf was the dominant force on the woman’s circuit, a powerful and
    consistent player.

    (A) Entering professional tennis as a talented but shy and awkward teenager, for
    the past eight years Steffi Graf was
    (B) A talented yet shy and awkward teenager when she entered professional
    tennis, for the last eight years Steffi Graf has been
    (C) For the past eight years, having entered professional tennis as a talented yet
    shy and awkward teenager, Steffi Graf has been
    (D) Steffi Graf entered professional tennis as a talented yet shy and awkward
    teenager, and was
    (E) Having entered professional tennis as a teenager who was talented yet shy
    and awkward, for the past eight years Steffi Graf has been

    7. Having discovered the Roman aristocrats to be suffering from lead poisoning, it is


    now thought that this was a major cause of their inability to reproduce.

    (A) Having discovered the Roman aristocrats to be suffering from lead poisoning
    (B) To have discovered the Roman aristocrats to be suffering from lead poisoning
    (C) Since scientists have discovered that the Roman aristocrats suffered from
    lead poisoning
    (D) Since the suffering of lead poisoning by Roman aristocrats was discovered by
    scientists
    (E) Due to the fact Roman aristocrats were suffering from lead poisoning was
    discovered by scientists

    8. While many citizens feel powerless to influence national policy, it is actually effective
    to write to a Congressperson with an opinion.

    (A) it is actually effective to write to a Congressperson with an opinion.


    (B) writing to your Congressperson with your opinion is actually effective.
    (C) to write to a Congressperson with an opinion is effective.
    (D) that writing your opinion to your Congressperson is effective.
    (E) the writing of an opinion to a Congressperson may be effective.

    9. By leading trump, the defenders defeated the contract resoundingly.

    (A) By leading trump, the defenders defeated the contract resoundingly.


    (B) By leading trump, the contract was defeated resoundingly by the defenders.
    (C) The defenders resounded the defeat of the contract by leading trump.
    (D) The contract, by leading trump, was defeated resoundingly by the defenders.
    (E) Resoundingly, the contract was defeated by the defenders by leading trump.
    10. In addition to those specified for professions, the corporations maintained
    endowments in purely academic fields, especially in the physical sciences.

    (A) the corporations maintained endowments in purely academic fields, especially


    in the physical sciences.
    (B) the corporations had maintained purely academic endowments like those of
    the physical sciences.
    (C) in purely academic fields, endowments, especially in the physical sciences,
    were maintained by the corporations.
    (D) the endowments were maintained in purely academic fields, especially in the
    physical sciences, by the corporations.
    (E) purely academic endowments, especially for those fields like the physical
    sciences, were maintained by the corporations.
    GMAT Sentence Correction Worksheet - Modifiers:
    ANSWER KEY

    Note: Video answer explanations for each question on this worksheet can be found under the
    “Worksheets” heading on your back-end member page. If you still have questions about
    certain problems after watching the solution videos, contact your instructor or send an e-mail to
    [email protected].

    1. D
    2. D
    3. B
    4. E
    5. E
    6. C
    7. C
    8. B
    9. A
    10. D

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