GMAT Sample Questions

GMAT Verbal Section : GMAT Sample Sentence Correction Questions

76. The unskilled workers at the Allenby plant realized that their hourly rate of $4.11 to $4.75 was better than many nearby factory wages.
    1. many nearby factory wages
    2. many wages in nearby factories
    3. what are offered by many nearby factories
    4. it is in many nearby factories
    5. that offered by many nearby factories

    Answer : E

77. Since 1970 the number of Blacks elected to state and federal offices in the United States has multiplied nearly four times.
    1. has multiplied nearly four times
    2. has almost quadrupled
    3. has almost multiplied by four
    4. is almost four times as great
    5. is nearly fourfold what it was

    Answer : B

78. India is country with at least fifty major regional languages, of whom fourteen have official recognition.
    1. of whom fourteen have official recognition
    2. fourteen that have official recognition
    3. fourteen of which are officially recognized
    4. fourteen that are officially recognized
    5. among whom fourteen have official recognition

    Answer : C

79. Wind resistance created by opening windows while driving results in a fuel penalty as great or greater than is incurred by using air conditioning.
    1. as great or greater than is incurred by using air conditioning
    2. that is as great or greater than is incurred using air conditioning
    3. as great as or greater than that of using air conditioning
    4. at least as great as air conditioning's
    5. at least as great as that incurred by using air conditioning

    Answer : E

80. At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution, the most radical faction, that of Zapata and his followers, proposed a return to communal ownership of land, to what had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards.
    1. land, to what had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards
    2. land, a form of ownership of the pre-Columbians and respected by the Spaniards
    3. land, respected by the Spaniards and a pre-Columbian form of ownership
    4. land in which a pre-Columbian form of ownership was respected by the Spaniards
    5. land that had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards

    Answer : A