INTERNAL USE
Sentence in English
Many people, willing to admit that they
lack computer skills or other technical
skills, are disinclined to recognize that
their analytical skills are weak.
If the proposed expenditures for
gathering information abroad are
reduced even further, international
news reports will continue to diminish
Visitors to the park have often looked
up into the leafy canopy and seen
monkeys sleeping on the branches,
with arms and legs hanging like socks
on a clothesline.
Efforts to equalize the funds available
to school districts, a major goal of
education reformers and many states
in the 1970’s, have not significantly
reduced the gap that exists between
the richest and poorest districts.
A recording system was so secretly
installed and operated in the Kennedy
Oval Office so that even Theodore C.
Sorensen, the White House counsel,
did not know it existed.
The financial crash of October 1987
demonstrated that the world’s capital
markets are more closely integrated
than ever before and that events in one
part of the global village may be
transmitted to the rest of the village.
The first decision for most tenants
living in a building undergoing
conversion to cooperative ownership is
Trick Sentence in Arabic
• A comparison must always be made between similar elements. ‫ على استعداد لالعتراف بأنهم‬، ‫كثير من الناس‬
• Information that is important to the core meaning of the sentence can ‫يفتقرون إلى مهارات الكمبيوتر أو المهارات‬
never be placed between commas. ‫ غير راغبين في إدراك‬، ‫التقنية األخرى‬
.‫ضعف مهاراتهم التحليلية‬
‫إذا تم تخفيض النفقات المقترحة لجمع‬
‫ فسوف‬، ‫المعلومات في الخارج بشكل أكبر‬
‫تستمر التقارير اإلخبارية الدولية في االنخفاض‬
• In the “noun + comma + phrase” construction, the phrase must correctly ‫غالبًا ما نظر زوار الحديقة إلى المظلة المورقة‬
modify the noun; this is one of the most frequently tested concepts on GMAT ‫ وذراعها‬، ‫ورأوا القرود تنام على األغصان‬
sentence correction. ‫وأرجلها معلقة مثل الجوارب على حبل‬
• “who/whose/whom/which/where”, when preceded by a comma, refer to ‫الغسيل‬.
the noun just before the comma.
• The simple present tense is used to indicate actions taking place in the
current time frame, indicate habitual actions, state universal truths, and
convey information that is permanent in nature.
Idiomatic construction
So (x) that (y)
So must be followed by that
The 1987 crash demonstrated two truths: that the world’s capital market are
integrated … and that events may be transmitted. Because theses two truths
must be presented in grammatically parallel structure, that must be added to
the second clause
 Undergoing should be followed by a noun (conversion) rather than phrase
(being concerted).
 When only two alternatives are possible, to sign or not to sign, whether
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whether to sign a no-buy pledge with (or whether or not) is properly used rather than if.
the other tenants.
Architects and stonemasons, the Maya  Architects and stonemasons are people, not things, so after the comma
built huge palace and temple clusters shall be followed by people.
without the benefit of animal transport  active voice (built) is preferred over the passive voice (were built)
or the wheel.
Holland spends more (x) on (y) than the
US does on (z)
The investigations of many psychologist uses the adverb "significantly" to modify the adjective "different".
and anthropologists support the Additionally, Option D is free of any awkwardness or redundancy.
generalization that there is little that is
significantly different in underlying
mental processes manifested by people
from different cultures.
Researchers agreed that the study of  You do require 'that' before 'more research' to keep parallelism intact.
new treatments for heart attack Therefore A and B are rejected.
patients was extremely important  "Preceded with" is wrong. Should be "preceded by"
but that more research was needed to  "For determining" is wrong. It should be "to determine"
determine whether balloon angioplasty
preceded by ultrasound is any better
for heart attack patients than the
balloon procedure by itself.