Product Description

The Sentence Correction Guide 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. The content of the book is aligned to the latest Official Guides from GMAC (12th edition).

Special Features:

Purchase of this book includes one year of access to Manhattan GMAT's online Sentence Correction Question Bank (accessible by inputting a unique code in the back of each book).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2145 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780982423868
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Publisher
Chapter by Chapter

Part I: General

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

3. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
Fragments, Middlemen, Warmups, Additive Phrases, Collective Nouns, Quantity Words, Flipping

4. PARALLELISM
Parallel Markers, Structures, Idioms, Superficial Parallelism, Linking Verbs

5. PRONOUNS
Antecedent Existence, Meaning, Ambiguity, Agreement, Case, Third Person Personal Pronouns, Demonstratives

6. MODIFIERS
Adjectives, Adverbs, Noun Modifiers, Position Rules and Exceptions, Relative Pronouns, Subgroup Modifiers, Essential vs. Non-Essential Modifiers, Verb Modifiers, Use of Which

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)

8. COMPARISONS
Like vs. As, Parallel Comparisons, Omitted Words, Comparative & Superlative Forms

9. IDIOMS
Spot-Extract-Replace, Idiom List (197 Entries)

10. ODDS & ENDS
Connecting Words, Connecting Punctuation, Quantity
PLUS: Official Guide Problem Matrixand Glossary of Grammatical Terms

Part II: Advanced

Includes separate chapters on numerous Advanced Sentence Correction topics, as well as additional practice problems.

From the Back Cover
What Students Are Saying: "The Sentence Correction Guide has great summaries of the topics and strong examples to strengthen the lessons. I consider the guide a great review of grammatical knowledge tested on the GMAT." "The 7 Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guides were invaluable. The guides were well organized and easily understandable for students at all levels. They imposed a lot of discipline, forcing me to study the topics in an organized way. The study skill sections were also helpful for additional practice before tackling actual GMAT problem types."

About the Author
Manhattan GMAT's 8 preparation guides were developed by Manhattan GMAT's talented staff of real teachers, all of whom have scored in the 99th percentile on the official GMAT. As the company focuses solely on the GMAT (no other tests), it continually updates the guides to reflect the GMAT's most current trends.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Product
I have used a ton of GMAT prep books and in general, aside from the official guides produced by the makers of the GMAT, most of the other study guides are just plain horrible. On the other hand, this book is top notch. It breaks down all of the major areas on sentence correction in an easy to read format and cross references problems in the official guide to hone your skills.

Sentence correct was my greatest weakness on the GMAT. In 2001 I took the GMAT and scored a 65% percentile on the verbal portion and this past January I scored in the 89% percentile. My only regret is that I did not get this book soon enough. I purchased this book two weeks before the test. Two weeks was enough time for me to cover everything in the book (and I am in law school with a horrid class load) but I wish I had it a few weeks earlier to practice more.

Another plus to the book is there is a link and code that gives you access to some online materials that will give you additional practice.

I do recommend you get the Official Guides to supplement this book. Every chapter has problems but the chapters also refer to real problems in the Official Guides which is a blessing to address weak points and to improve your skills.

On a negative note the price was a bit high at $30 but it was money well spent and I would pay that much again if I needed to. The price did not effect my rating - it helped my score and in the end that is what matters.

Concepts explained very well
I am surprised that this book is not as popular as it should be. I was looking for a refresher Grammar book to explain the concepts, but English Grammar is too vast. This book explains the grammatical concepts that are tested on the GMAT very well. I recommend using this book as a supplement though. You want to get practice on questions from other books. This book does refer to the Official GMAT book indicating which sentence correction questions test certain concepts.

The Kaplan book is really lousy explaining the concepts. The Princeton review explains it better but this book is even more detailed.

Very helpful!
I'd read on a GMAT blog that the Manhattan GMAT Sentence Correction Guide was the most helpful book out there for S.C. problems, and I can easily see why it has gotten that reputation! Very clear and analytical, broke the problems down in a way that I haven't seen elsewhere (and I own some of the big books), I found it very useful.