GMAT Sample Questions

GMAT Verbal Section : GMAT Sample Sentence Correction Questions

66. Many investors base their choice between bonds and stocks on comparing bond yields to the dividends available on common stocks.
    1. between bonds and stocks on comparing bond yields to
    2. among bonds and stocks on comparisons of bond yields to
    3. between bonds and stocks on comparisons of bond yields with
    4. among bonds and stocks on comparing bond yields and
    5. between bonds and stocks on comparing bond yields with

    Answer : C

67. Some of the tenth-century stave churches of Norway are still standing, demonstrating that with sound design and maintenance, wooden buildings can last indefinitely.
    1. standing, demonstrating that with sound design and maintenance, wooden buildings can last indefinitely
    2. standing, demonstrating how wooden buildings, when they have sound design and maintenance, can last indefinitely
    3. standing; they demonstrate if a wooden building has sound design and maintenance it can last indefinitely
    4. standing, and they demonstrate wooden buildings can last indefinitely when there is sound design and maintenance
    5. standing, and they demonstrate how a wooden building can last indefinitely when it has sound design and maintenance

    Answer : A

68. In the United States, trade unions encountered far more intense opposition against their struggle for social legitimacy than the organized labor movements of most other democratic nations.
    1. against their struggle for social legitimacy than
    2. in their struggle for social legitimacy than did
    3. against their struggle for social legitimacy as
    4. in their struggle for social legitimacy as did
    5. when they struggled for social legitimacy than has

    Answer : B

69. For many people, household labor remains demanding even if able to afford household appliances their grandparents would find a miracle.
    1. even if able to afford household appliances their grandparents would find a miracle
    2. despite being able to afford household appliances their grandparents would find a miracle
    3. even if they can afford household appliances their grandparents would have found miraculous
    4. although they could afford household appliances their grandparents would find miraculous
    5. even if they are able to afford household appliances which would have been a miracle to their grandparents

    Answer : C

70. In the most common procedure for harvesting forage crops such as alfalfa, as much as 20 percent of the leaf and small-stem material, which is the most nutritious of all the parts of the plant, shattered and fell to the ground.
    1. which is the most nutritious of all the parts of the plant, shattered and fell
    2. the most nutritious of all parts of the plant, shatter and fall
    3. the parts of the plant which were most nutritious, will shatter and fall
    4. the most nutritious parts of the plant, shatters and falls.
    5. parts of the plant which are the most nutritious, have shattered and fallen

    Answer : D