Here is a bit of GMAT Test Prep - Subject-verb agreement

Here is a bit of GMAT Test Prep - Subject-verb agreement

Serious students of GMAT prep. understand the importance of the subject -verb agreement in the Sentence Correction module. These questions form at least two to three per sitting. In order to familiarize students with this important aspect, I give below ten of some typical GMAT examples. The bolded portions of the sentences plausibly contain some error or probably not. Those who wish to practice, please post the answers to my email newnaren@gmail.com.



1. Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its poison.

2. Among the emotions on display in the negotiating room were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal.

3. As the etched lines on computer memory chips have become thinner and the chips’ circuits more complex, both the power of the chips and the electronic devices they drive have vastly increased.

4. Developing nations in various parts of the world have amassed $700 billion in debts; at stake, should a significant number of these debts be repudiated, is the solvency of some of the world’s largest multinational banks.

5. In the most common procedure for harvesting forage crops such as alfalfa, as much as 20 percent of the leaf and small-stem materials, which is the most nutritious of all the parts of the plant, shattered and fell to the ground.

6. Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.

7. Amid the forty and odd students in this SAT class is a brother and a sister, who happens to hail from Japan

8. There are more than forty newspapers published in the cities of Kerala, a state on the Malabar Coast, a fact that reflects that Keralans are by far India’s most literate citizens.

9. The coyote is one of several recent ecological success stories: along with the white-tailed deer, the moose, and other species that are enlarging their natural domains, they have established themselves as supreme adapters in an era when the capability to adjust to the environmental changes wrought by human beings has created a whole new class of dominant large mammals.

10. A study by the Ocean Wildlife Campaign urged states to undertake remedies to reverse a decline in the shark population, a number of which includes the establishment of size limits for shark catches, closing state waters for shark fishing during pupping season, and requiring commercial fishers to have federal shark permits.