| Coverage : The GMAT Practice Test - Sentence Correction - Misplaced Modifiers has been designed to test the important aspects of Sentence Correction. This test covers one of the errors while phrasing a gramatically correct sentence, namely a misplaced modifier. When a modifier of a noun or a pronoun, which is a phrase that starts with a verb ending in -ing, is misplaced, it is a case of a misplaced modifier. |
| 1. | Although not as accurate as a calculator, doctors recommend the use of mental math in everyday life. |
| a. | | doctors recommend the use of mental math in everyday life |
| b. | | using mental math is recommended by doctors in everyday life |
| c. | | doctors have recommended the use of mental math in everyday life |
| d. | | the use of mental math in everyday life is recommended by doctors |
| e. | | doctors recommend the use of mental math in daily life
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| 2. | Written and published in 1936, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her romantic historical fiction Gone With the Wind. |
| a. | | Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her romantic historical fiction Gone With the Wind |
| b. | | Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Gone With the Wind which was a romantic historical fiction |
| c. | | Gone With the Wind, won Margaret Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize for her romantic historical fiction |
| d. | | Margaret Mitchell won for her romantic historical fiction Gone With the Wind the Pulitzer Prize |
| e. | | Gone With the Wind, a romantic historical fiction won Margaret Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize
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| 3. | A person long devoted to serving the poor, the mayor awarded a medal to Mr. Brooks. |
| a. | | the mayor awarded a medal to Mr. Brooks |
| b. | | a mayor awarded the medal to Mr. Brooks |
| c. | | Mr. Brooks was awarded a medal by the mayor |
| d. | | the mayor awarded the medal to Mr. Brooks |
| e. | | Mr. Brooks was awarded by the mayor a medal
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| 4. | Coming around the corner, a few moments passed before I could recognize my old friend Harry. |
| a. | | Coming around the corner a few moments passed before I could recognize my old friend Harry |
| b. | | As I came around the corner, a few moments passed before I could recognize my old friend Harry |
| c. | | Coming around the corner, before I could recognize my old friend Harry a few moments passed |
| d. | | As I came around the corner, a few moments passed me before I could recognize my old friend Harry |
| e. | | Coming around the corner, a few moments passed me by before I could recognize my old friend Harry
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| 5. | An adjective which means a course of action that is prudent, sensible or well-advised is judicious. |
| a. | | An adjective which means a course of action that is prudent, sensible or well-advised is judicious |
| b. | | Judicious means an adjective that is a prudent, sensible or well-advised course of action |
| c. | | Judicious is an adjective meaning a course of prudent, sensible or well-advised action |
| d. | | Judicious is an adjective which means a course of action that is prudent, sensible or well-advised |
| e. | | Judicious is a course of action that means a prudent, sensible or well-advised adjective
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| 6. | Many researchers have argued, because scholarship is still in its nascent stage that to develop a model would be premature, but to progress toward a model is essential at this time. |
| a. | | Many researchers have argued, because scholarship is still in its nascent stage |
| b. | | Many researchers have argued because, still in its nascent stage is scholarship |
| c. | | Because scholarship is still in its nascent stage, argued have many researchers |
| d. | | Many researchers have argued, since scholarship is still in its nascent stage |
| e. | | Because scholarship is still in its nascent stage, many researchers have argued
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| 7. | The psychic claimed but no one trusted her ability as a prophet to know what the signs portended. |
| a. | | The psychic claimed but no one trusted her ability as a prophet to know what the signs portended |
| b. | | No prophet trusted the psychic's ability to know what the signs portended |
| c. | | The psychic claimed to know what the signs portended but no one trusted her ability as a prophet |
| d. | | The psychic claimed her ability to know what the signs portended but no one trusted her as a prophet |
| e. | | The psychic claimed to know what the signs portended but her ability as a prophet no one trusted
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| 8. | Designed buildings exclusively for strength and stability, structures for which only utilitarian considerations have been taken into account are properly works of engineering, not true architecture. |
| a. | | Designed buildings exclusively for strength and stability |
| b. | | Buildings designed exclusively for strength and stability |
| c. | | Exclusively designed buildings for strength and stability |
| d. | | Buildings designed for strength and stability exclusively |
| e. | | Exclusively buildings designed for strength and stability
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| 9. | Although not quite as liquid an investment as a money market account, financial gurus do recommend a certificate of deposit for its high rate of return. |
| a. | | financial gurus do recommend a certificate of deposit for its high rate of return |
| b. | | a certificate of deposit for its high rate of return is recommended by the financial gurus |
| c. | | financial gurus highly recommend a certificate of deposit for its high rate of return |
| d. | | a certificate of deposit is recommended by financial gurus for its high rate of return |
| e. | | financial gurus highly recommend a certificate of deposit due to its high rate of return
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| 10. | Those who fought for women's right to vote, despite their disparate backgrounds, successfully overcame their differences in a united effort. |
| a. | | Those who fought for women's right to vote, despite their disparate backgrounds |
| b. | | Those who fought for women's right to vote, inspite of their disparate backgrounds |
| c. | | Despite their disparate backgrounds, those who fought for women's right to vote |
| d. | | Those who fought despite their disparate backgrounds for the right to women's vote |
| e. | | Despite their disparate backgrounds, who fought those for women's right to vote
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