Common SC Misconceptions
I’ve written a series of articles that tackle some of the most common MISCONCEPTIONS pertaining to Sentence Correction. Here are those misconceptions linking to the respective articles.
- A regular pronoun cannot refer to a noun in possessive form
- Like cannot be used to offer examples
- GMAT English is different from Standard English
- When compared with is always wrong
- ‘Everbody should take care of their books’ is incorrect
- Which always presents non-essential information
- ‘Due to’ cannot modify a verb
- ‘Not only’ needs to be followed by ‘but also’
- The correct option needs to communicate the same meaning as the original sentence
- Although is always followed by a clause
- Being is always wrong on GMAT – An eGMAT article (Please ignore the comment at the end of the article about “when compared to” and “like”. Those are misconceptions!)
Thanks CJ. This is an excellent resource to refer to during our preparation. (I am a GMATCO student btw 😀 )
-May be you can also add another article about the misconception of verb-ing modifier always being in agreement with the subject of the preceding clause.
-Also, another one could be that between Noun and Noun Modifier there can’t be a verb or verb-modifier.
I am not sure if these are “common” misconceptions but certainly the ones that I held for a long time. At least this comment may help others to keep these in mind too.