Articles tagged "Modifiers"

GMAT Grammar: Clauses, Modifiers, and the Founding Fathers

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - GMAT Grammar: Clauses, Modifiers, and the Founding Fathers by Patrick Tyrrell

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Our Founding Fathers are routinely lionized for their heroic war for independence and their ingenious creation of our Constitutional democracy.

But these boys also knew how to spit some verse. Read more

GMAT Sentence Correction Tests Good Grammar, Not Good Writing

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Sentence Correction Tests Good Grammar Not Good Writing by Chelsey CooleyDid you know that you can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GMAT courses absolutely free? We’re not kidding! Check out our upcoming courses here.


There’s a type of sentence known among linguists and grammar mavens as a “garden path” sentence. These sentences earned this name by leading readers “down the garden path” — you think the sentence is going in one direction, but halfway through, you suddenly realize that it’s saying something else entirely. Here’s the classic example: Read more

A “Good Ear” isn’t Good Enough on GMAT Sentence Correction

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - A Good Ear Isn't Good Enough on GMAT Sentence Correction

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If you’re anything like me, you read books and articles avidly (although maybe less often than you did in college), and you’ve been told that you’re a good writer (although you definitely write less than you did in college). The Sentence Correction portion of GMAT Verbal seems like it should be easy for you: fix anything that sounds like bad writing, and you’ll do well here.

Unfortunately, that assumption is wrong. Read more