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sentence correction. in particular, you should make sure you have a thorough knowledge of the following fundamental error types:
agreement
parallelism
modifiers
general issues of meaning
if you understand these concepts, then you have most of the knowledge that you need to do well on the sentence correction part. there are a thousand zillion other small things that are tested, but most errors in the sentences fall into the above-mentioned types.
if you have already solved all the problems in those guides, do the following:
SENTENCE CORRECTION:
* insert the correct answer choice into the sentence (thereby creating a totally correct sentence).
* take a look at EVERY modifier in the sentence. make sure that you can explain what EVERY modifier modifies.
* take a look at EVERY verb in the sentence. justify to yourself (a) the tense in which the verb appears, and (b) the subject of the verb.
* if there is any parallelism anywhere in the sentence, point it out. etc.
you should do these things both inside and outside the underline. since under half of the sentence is usually underlined, these kinds of exercises should essentially more than double your learning.
CRITICAL REASONING:
try to make your own analogies for the problems. in other words, try to create novel situations that use similar logic, but have completely different topic material. for instance, consider critical reasoning problem 101 in the 12th edition official guide (i'm not allowed to reproduce the problem here). here's an analogy for that problem:
my sister says that she wants to date a guy who has a good job and lots of free time to spend with her. however, very few men with good jobs have much free time.
you can put these statements together to reach the conclusion that “very few men will be able to satisfy my sister's requirements” or “my sister will have a hard time finding a man”. this conclusion works in the same way as the correct answer to #101.
if you can make such analogies, then your brain is working in the right way. if you are fundamentally dependent on being handed passages by someone else, and can't create any of your own, then you have the wrong mentality.
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