Errata – Sentence Correction, 6th Edition

Cover for 6th Edition

Release Date:
December 2, 2014

6.0

Page	Loc	Description	Erroneous Text	Correction
34	Middle	At the end of the 3rd paragraph, the text “Consider this example:” should be removed.
37	Top	Solutions, #2: The correct answer is B, not C. The explanation should be as follows: “(B): In the original sentence, the modifier who had been waiting does not clearly modify the people. It appears, illogically, to modify the closer noun (the airport). The boldface version moves who had been waiting next to the people, thus making clear that it is the people who had been waiting.”	(C)	(B)
58	Bottom	The example under preposition is not correctly used as a noun modifier.	Sue placed the CAT on the couch. Where is the cat? (on the couch)	The CAT on the couch loves dogs. Which cat? (the one on the couch)
85	Top	The marker in the second row of the table (Participle Modifiers) is labeled incorrectly.	not only X but also Y (closed)	X but Y (open)
120	Bottom	Explanation for #11. Delete the paragraph starting “The three uses of she”…
153	Bottom	Question 4b is labeled incorrectly. It should be labeled WRONG.	RIGHT	WRONG
173	Bottom	In Question 10, “their” should be replaced with “its.”	THEIR	ITS
175	Middle	In Question 10, the text in the parentheses at the end of the sentence should say: “The singular pronoun its signals that the collective noun orchestra is singular in this sentence, so the verb must also be singular.”	Like other collective nouns, orchestra is almost always considered singular on the GMAT.	The singular pronoun its signals that the collective noun orchestra is singular in this sentence, so the verb must also be singular.
228	Middle	The example listed under Wrong would be an acceptable usage under GMAT rules as “estimated at” can be followed by a simple noun. We have therefore updated the examples under Right and changed the example under Wrong	WRONG: She ESTIMATES the cost AT ten dollars.	RIGHT: With a temperature ESTIMATED AT 100 degrees, boiling water can cause severe burns. RIGHT: She ESTIMATES the cost TO BE 10% less than it was last year. WRONG: She ESTIMATES the cost AT 10% less than it was last year.
259	Top	The past tense of rise is rose.	risen	rose