GMAT Sample Questions

GMAT Verbal Section : GMAT Sample Sentence Correction Questions

16. The significant number of overtime and weekend hours accumulated by many employees in order to compensate for overly optimistic deadlines lend validity to the observation that many of the firm's top managers still pine for the era of the six-day work week.
    1. lend validity to the observation that many of the firm's top managers still pine for the era of the six-day work week
    2. lends validity to the observation of many of the firm's top managers' still pining for the era of the six-day work week
    3. lends validity to the observation of many of the firm's top managers, still pining for the six-day work week era
    4. lend it validity to observe that many of the firm's top managers still pine for the era of the six-day work week
    5. lends validity to the observation that many of the firm's top managers still pine for the era of the six-day work week

    Answer : E

17. Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.
    1. as old as any of their supposed
    2. older than any of their supposed
    3. as old as their supposed
    4. older than any of their supposedly
    5. as old as their supposedly

    Answer : B

18. The cameras of the Voyager II spacecraft detected six small, previously unseen moons circling Uranus, which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting the distant planet.
    1. which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting
    2. doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known to orbit
    3. which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known in orbit around
    4. doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting
    5. which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known that orbit

    Answer : B

19. During the war, the king and queen constantly visited factories and bombed out civilians.
    1. bombed out civilians
    2. they bombed the civilians out
    3. civilians bombed out
    4. civilians who had bombed out
    5. civilians who had been bombed out

    Answer : E

20. It's surprising that there is so much agreement between two such different people.
    1. such different people
    2. so different people
    3. people of such difference
    4. people who are such different
    5. such people who are different

    Answer : B