Monday, September 5, 2016

Marissa TS #13

For my second tutoring session with Cyan we focused on how to improve his understanding of English grammar so that he would be able to practice questions for the verbal section of the GMAT (the business school entrance exam).  Mainly we were focusing on the section about “sentence correction,” in which test takers are given complicated sentences with one part underlined and are asked to find the best alternative version of that section from the multiple choice options. This section of the exam can be difficult even for native English speakers if they don’t understand grammar well. I sent him some resources that outline strategies for tackling these questions, and together we went over some of the main grammar concepts that come up on the exam. We reviewed parallel structure (matching verb tenses, prepositions, etc.), subject/verb agreement, pronoun/antecedent agreement, as well as comparison words (much, less, better, etc.). 

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