| Coverage : The GMAT Practice Test - Sentence Correction - Parallel Construction 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 parallel construction. When the list of phrases following the main verb is not constructed in the same way in a sentence, it is a case of a parallel construction error. |
| 1. | Until a recent study stated otherwise, it was widely believed that on an average, a wild monkey ate 10 bananas a day, drinks 7 gallons of water a week, slept 50 hours a week and mated thrice a year. |
| a. | | monkey ate 10 bananas a day, drinks 7 gallons of water |
| b. | | monkey ate 10 bananas a day, drank 7 gallons of water |
| c. | | monkey eats 10 bananas a day, drinks 7 gallons of water |
| d. | | monkey eats 10 bananas a day but drinks 7 gallons of water |
| e. | | monkey eats 10 bananas a day and drank 7 gallons of water
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| 2. | According to a recent survey, an average French woman speaks 2 languages, gets married twice, drinks 17 gallons of wine every year and forgot to pay at least two bills annually. |
| a. | | drinks 17 gallons of wine every year and forgot to pay at least two bills annually |
| b. | | drinks 17 gallons of wine every year and forgets pay two bills at least annually |
| c. | | drank 17 gallons of wine every year and forgot to pay at least two bills annually |
| d. | | drinks 17 gallons of wine every year and forgets to pay at least two bills annually |
| e. | | drank 17 gallons of wine every year and forgets to pay at least two bills annually
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| 3. | A business theory claims that behind any decision, the human mind analyses, ranks in order of importance, compared and contrasted vast amounts of information, rejected extraneous factors, arriving at a conclusion almost instantaneously. |
| a. | | compared and contrasted vast amounts of information, rejected extraneous factors, arriving at a conclusion almost instantaneously |
| b. | | compared and contrasts vast amount of information, rejected extraneous factors, arriving at a conclusion almost instantaneously |
| c. | | compares and contrasts vast amount of information, rejects extraneous factors, arriving at a conclusion almost instantaneously |
| d. | | compares and contrasts vast amounts of information, rejects extraneous factors, arriving at a conclusion almost instantaneously |
| e. | | compares and contrastes vast amounts of information, rejected extraneous factors, arriving at a conclusion instantaneously
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| 4. | Cigarettes are detrimental to one's health, it constricts the airways of the lungs, elevating blood pressure, and causes lung cancer and respiratory diseases. |
| a. | | it constricts the airways of the lungs, elevating blood pressure, and causes lung cancer and respiratory diseases |
| b. | | it constricts the airway of the lungs, elevating blood pressure, and causing lung cancer and respiratory diseases |
| c. | | it constricts the airways of the lungs, elevates blood pressure, and causes lung cancer and respiratory diseases |
| d. | | it is constricting the airways of the lungs, elevating blood pressure, and causing lung cancer and respiratory diseases |
| e. | | it constricts the airway of the lungs, elevates blood pressure, and causing lung cancer and respiratory diseases
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| 5. | All management students are taught the art of communicating, persuasion, conviction and motivation. |
| a. | | All management students are taught the art of communicating, persuasion, conviction and motivation |
| b. | | All management students are taught the art of communicating, persuading, conviction and motivating |
| c. | | All management students and taught the art of communication, persuasion, conviction and motivating |
| d. | | All the students of management are taught the art of communicating, persuasion, conviction and motivation |
| e. | | All management students are taught the art of communication, persuasion, conviction and motivation
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| 6. | Keeping to the high roads, cycling as fast as he could, as well as not stopping for rest, allowed him to make the trip in record time. |
| a. | | as well as not stopping for rest |
| b. | | and not stop for rest |
| c. | | as well as not to stop for rest |
| d. | | and not stopping for rest |
| e. | | and stopping not for rest
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| 7. | Industrialized and inhabited countries close to the Arctic are sending polluting emissions across to the North Pole, thus creating a greenhouse effect, warming the air and loosens the ice sheets. |
| a. | | creating a greenhouse effect, warming the air and loosens the ice sheets |
| b. | | creating a greenhouse effect, warming the air and loosening the ice sheets |
| c. | | creating the greenhouse effect, warming air and loosens the ice sheets |
| d. | | creating a greenhouse affect, warming the air and loosening the ice sheets |
| e. | | creates greenhouse effect, warms the air and loosens the ice sheets
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| 8. | As opposed to a man, a woman can multi-task, locate lost objects, analyze emotional distraught and yet, all the while looking forward to shopping spree. |
| a. | | emotional distraught and yet, all the while looking forward to shopping spree |
| b. | | emotional distraught and yet, all the while looking forward for a shopping spree |
| c. | | emotional distraught and yet, all the while look forward to a shopping spree |
| d. | | emotional distraught but all the while looking forward to a shopping spree |
| e. | | emotional distraught and yet, all the while look forward for a shopping spree
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| 9. | According to a recent survey, on any given day, an average man spends 12 hours working, 7 hours sleeping, 3 hours watching television and 2 hours in miscellaneous activities like eating, dating bathing etc. |
| a. | | an average man spends 12 hours working, 7 hours sleeping |
| b. | | an average man spends 12 hours at work, 7 hours sleeping |
| c. | | average men spend 12 hours in at work, 7 hours sleeping |
| d. | | an average man spends 12 hours at work, 7 hours for sleep |
| e. | | average men spends 12 hours working, 7 hours sleeping
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| 10. | To maintain a healthy body and mind, one must exercise, eat vegetables and fruits and refrain from cigarettes and drinking alcohol. |
| a. | | refrain from cigarettes and drinking alcohol |
| b. | | refrain from smoking cigarettes and drinks |
| c. | | refrain from smoking and alcohol |
| d. | | refrain from cigarettes and drinking of alcohol |
| e. | | refrain from cigarettes and alcohol
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