1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 140 539.Not until the Enlightenment, some 200 years ago, had society seriously questioned the right of the state that it could execute its citizens. (A) had society seriously questioned the right of the state that it could execute (B) did society seriously questioned the right of the state that it could execute (C) had society seriously questioned the right of the state for the executing of (D) did society seriously question the right of the state to execute (E) had society seriously questioned whether the state had a right that it could execute 540.Nowhere in Prakta is the influence of modern European architecture more apparent than their government buildings. (A) more apparent than their (B) so apparent as their (C) more apparent than in its (D) so apparent than in their (E) as apparent as it is in its 541.Nuclear fusion is the force that powers the Sun, the stars, and hydrogen bombs, merging the nuclei of atoms and not splitting them apart, as in nuclear reactors . (A) merging the nuclei of atoms and not splitting them apart, as in nuclear reactors (B) merging the nuclei of atoms instead of splitting them apart, like nuclear reactors (C) merging the nuclei of atoms rather than splitting them apart, as nuclear reactors do (D) and merges the nuclei of atoms but does not split them apart, as is done in unclear reactors (E) and merges the nuclei of atoms, unlike atomic reactors that split them apart 542.Oberlin College in Ohio was a renegade institution at its 1833 founding for deciding to accept both men and women as students. (A) at its 1833 founding for deciding to accept (B) for the decision at its 1833 founding to accept (C) when it was founded in 1833 for its decision to accept (D) in deciding at its founding in 1833 to accept (E) by deciding at its founding in 1833 on the acceptance of 543.Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the possibility of an adverse change in climate is maybe the more difficult for analysis . (A) is maybe the more difficult for analysis (B) is probably the most difficult to analyze 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 141 (C) is maybe the most difficult for analysis (D) is probably the more difficult to analyze (E) is, it may be, the analysis that is most difficult 544.Of all the wild animals in their area, none was more useful to the Delaware tribes than the Virginia white tailed deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut for bindings and glue. (A) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut (B) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide used for clothing, with its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut used (C) deer: which was a source of meat, with its hide used for clothing, antlers and bones for tools, as well as its sinews and gut used (D) deer: which, as well as being a source of meat, its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut were (E) deer: with, as well as being a source of meat, its hide used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut 545.Of the twin supernovas, the most recently discovered is the largest, but it is the small one that has irrevocably altered astronomists’ ideas about the origins of the universe. (A) the most recently discovered is the largest, but it is the small one (B) the one most recently discovered is the largest, but it is the small one (C) the most recently discovered is larger, but it is the smaller (D) the more recently discovered one is the large one but the small one (E) the more recently discovered is the larger, but it is the smaller one 546.Often visible as smog, ozone is formed in the atmosphere from hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, two major pollutants emitted by automobiles, react with sunlight. (A) ozone is formed in the atmosphere from (B) ozone is formed in the atmosphere when (C) ozone is formed in the atmosphere, and when (D) ozone, formed in the atmosphere when (E) ozone, formed in the atmosphere from 547.On stage, the force of Carrick’s personality and the vividness of his acting disguised the fact he was, which his surviving velvet suit shows, a short man. (A) he was, which his surviving velvet suit shows, (B) he was, and it is his surviving velvet suit that shows it, (C) of him being, as his surviving velvet suit shows, (D) that he was, as his surviving velvet suit shows, 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 142 (E) shown in his surviving velvet suit, that he was 548.On the Great Plains, nineteenth-century settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, doing it without timber and nails. (A) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, doing it without (B) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, did it without (C) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, making them while not having (D) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, making do without (E) settlers’ homes were built of mud and grass, making do without 549.Once an apolitical confrontation of the world’s best athletes, the Summer Olympics have been increasingly politicized in recent years as the superpowers have denied many of the best athletes’ access to competition. (A) been increasingly politicized (B) been increasing politicization (C) been of increasing politicization (D) politicized, increasingly, (E) increased politicization 550.Once common throughout the Western plains, black-footed ferrets are thought to have declined in number as a result of the poisoning of prairie dogs, their prey. (A) black-footed ferrets are thought to have declined in number as (B) it is thought that the decline in number of black-footed ferrets is (C) the decline in the number of black-footed ferrets is thought of as (D) that black-footed ferrets have declined in their numbers is thought to be (E) the numbers of the black-footed ferret are thought to have declined as 551.Once positioned in space, the Hubble Space Telescope will capture light from sources twenty times fainter compared to those that can be detected by ground-based instruments. (A) compared to those that can be detected (B) compared to those they can detect (C) than that can be detected (D) than those that can be detected (E) than those detecting 552.Once the economic and social usefulness of the motor car was demonstrated and with its superiority to the horse being proved, much of the early hostility to it in rural regions disappeared. (A) and with its superiority to the horse being (B) and its superiority over the horse had been 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 143 (C) and its superiority to the horse (D) its superiority over the horse (E) with its superiority to the horse having been 553.Once they had seen the report from the medical examiner, the investigators did not doubt whether the body recovered from the river was the man who had attempted to escape from the state prison. (A) did not doubt whether the body recovered from the river was (B) have no doubt whether the body recovered from the river was (C) had not doubted that the body recovered from the river was (D) have no doubt whether the body recovered from the river was that of (E) had no doubt that the body recovered from the river was that of 554.One legacy of Madison Avenue’s recent campaign to appeal to people fifty years old and over is the realization that as a person ages, their concerns change as well. (A) the realization that as a person ages, their (B) the realization that as people age, their (C) to realize that when a person ages, his or her (D) to realize that when people age, their (E) realizing that as people age, their 555.One noted economist has made a comparison of the Federal Reserve and an automobile as racing through a tunnel, bouncing first off one wall, then the other; the car may get where it is going, but people may be hurt in the process. (A) made a comparison of the Federal Reserve and an automobile as racing through a tunnel, bouncing (B) made a comparison between the Federal Reserve and an automobile racing through a tunnel, bouncing (C) compared the Federal Reserve with an automobile as racing through a tunnel and which bounced (D) compared the Federal Reserve to an automobile racing through a tunnel, bouncing (E) compared the Federal Reserve with an automobile that races through a tunnel and it bounces 556.One of Arthur Jessop’s first acts as president of the FHA was to deny a request from the private sector that federal home loan programs should be expanded to cover houses not conforming to civil construction codes. (A) should be expanded to cover houses not conforming to (B) be expanded to cover houses not conforming to (C) should be expand to cover houses not conforming with (D) would have been expanded to cover houses not conforming to 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 144 (E) had to be expanded to cover houses not conforming with 557.One of every two new businesses fail within two years. (A) fail (B) fails (C) should fail (D) may have failed (E) has failed 558.One of four babies are now born to mothers aged thirty years or more, compared with just one of six born in 1975. (A) of four babies are now born to mothers aged thirty years or more, compared with just one of six born (B) of four babies is now born to a mother whose age is thirty or older, compared to just one of six babies who were born (C) baby in four are now born to mothers aged thirty or older, compared to just one in six (D) baby in four is now born to a mother aged thirty or older, compared with just one in six (E) baby in four is now born to mothers aged thirty years or more, compared to just one in six 559.One of Ronald Reagan’s first acts as President was to rescind President Carter’s directive that any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States be prohibited from sale to other countries. (A) that any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States be prohibited from sale to other countries (B) that any chemical be prohibited from sale to other countries that was banned on medical grounds in the United States (C) prohibiting the sale to other countries of any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States (D) prohibiting that any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States is sold to other countries (E) that any chemical banned in the United States on medical grounds is prohibited from being sold to other countries 560.One of the most powerful driving forces behind recycling is the threat of legislation that would require companies that they take more responsibility for the disposal of its products. (A) that they take more responsibility for the disposal of its products (B) that they should take more responsibility for disposing of products (C) having to take more responsibility for disposing of their products 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 145 (D) to take more responsibility for the disposal of their products (E) taking more responsibility for their product’s disposal 561.One pervasive theory explains the introduction of breakfast cereals in the early 1900s as a result of the growing number of automobiles, which led to a decline in horse ownership and a subsequent grain glut; by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored. (A) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored (B) persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium (C) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, it restored market equilibrium (D) the persuasion of people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium (E) market equilibrium was restored when people were persuaded to eat former horse feed 562.One reason why more young people lose their virginity during the summer than at other times of the year undoubtedly is because school vacations give adolescents more free time. (A) One reason why more young people lose their virginity during the summer than at other times of the year undoubtedly is because (B) If young people lose their virginity more during the summer than other seasons, it is undoubtedly because (C) One undoubtable reason that young people lose their virginity more during the summer than other times is (D) One reason more young people lose their virginity during the summer than at other times of the year is undoubtedly that (E) Young people lose their virginity more often during the summer undoubtedly because, for one reason, 563.One view of the economy contends that a large drop in oil prices should eventually lead to lowering interest rates, as well as lowering fears about inflation, a rally in stocks and bonds, and a weakening of the dollar. (A) lowering interest rates, as well as lowering fears about inflation, (B) a lowering of interest rates and of fears about inflation, (C) a lowering of interest rates, along with fears about inflation, (D) interest rates being lowered, along with fears about inflation, (E) interest rates and fears about inflation being lowered, with 564.Opened in 1683, the Ashmolean was the first public museum in Great Britain, while earlier the Bodleian has been the first truly public library. . over is the realization that as a person ages, their concerns change as well. (A) the realization that as a person ages, their (B) the realization that as people age, their (C) to realize that. 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 140 5 39. Not until the Enlightenment, some 200 years ago,. his surviving velvet suit shows, (D) that he was, as his surviving velvet suit shows, 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 142 (E)