1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 70 ecology of the land, were a help in the rescuing of many Pilgrims and pioneers from hardship, or even death. (A) Native Americans, intimately knowing the ecology of the land, were a help in the rescuing of (B) Native Americans knew the ecology and the land intimately and this enabled them to help in the rescue of (C) Native Americans, with their intimate knowledge of the ecology of the land, helped to rescue (D) having intimate knowledge of the ecology of the land, Native Americans helped the rescue of (E) knowing intimately the ecology of the land, Native Americans helped to rescue 263.During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred substantial costs for creating products that, due to a decline in public funding for instructional material, never were sold. (A) funding for instructional material, never were (B) funding for instructional material, never was (C) funding, the instructional material, was never (D) funding for instructional material, the products were never (E) funding, they were never 264.During the first one hundred fifty years of the existence of this republic, no one expected the press was fair; newspapers were mostly shrill, scurrilous, and partisan. (A) was (B) to be (C) of being (D) should be (E) had to be 265.During the first year after the corporate reorganization, no one considered the management was well-organized ; managers were largely untrained and directionless. (A) was well-organized (B) well-organized (C) were well-organized (D) seemed to be well-organized (E) seemed well-organized 266.During the Great Depression, industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 down to its nadir in 1933. 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 71 (A) During the Great Depression, industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 down to its nadir in 1933. (B) During the Great Depression, industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 to its nadir in 1933. (C) At the time of the Great Depression, industrial output fell by almost fifty percent from its 1929 peak down to its 1933 nadir. (D) At the time of the Great Depression, industrial output fell from its peak in 1929, by nearly fifty percent, to it nadir in 1933. (E) During the Great Depression, industrial output fell from its peak in 1929 to its nadir in 1933 by nearly fifty percent. 267.During the nineteenth century Emily Eden and Fanny Parks journeyed throughout India, sketching and keeping journals forming the basis of news reports about the princely states where they had visited. (A) forming the basis of news reports about the princely states where they had (B) that were forming the basis of news reports about the princely states (C) to form the basis of news reports about the princely states which they have (D) which had formed the basis of news reports about the princely states where they had (E) that formed the basis of news reports about the princely states they 268.During the recession of 1973, home mortgage foreclosures resulted in tens of thousands of Americans being evicted from homes that they can no longer afford monthly payments. (A) that they can (B) that they could (C) on which they can (D) because they can (E) for which they could 269.During the Renaissance, scholars were uncertain as to the location of Troy, and by the eighteenth century many historians doubted that Troy had ever existed . (A) doubted that Troy had ever existed (B) doubt that Troy has ever existed (C) were in doubt as to the existence of Troy (D) were doubtful concerning Troy’s existence (E) had doubts about Troy’s ever existing 270.Each of Hemingway’s wives—Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh—were strong and interesting women, very different from the often pallid women who populate his novels. (A) Each of Hemingway’s wives—Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 72 Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh—were strong and interesting women, (B) Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh—each of them Hemingway’s wives—were strong and interesting women, (C) Hemingway’s wives—Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh—were all strong and interesting women, (D) Strong and interesting women—Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh—each a wife of Hemingway, was (E) Strong and interesting women—Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh—every one of Hemingway’s wives were 271.Eaten in the Mediterranean countries, northern Europeans viewed the tomato with suspicion, for they assumed it had poisonous properties because of its relationship to deadly nightshade. (A) northern Europeans viewed the tomato with suspicion, for they (B) northern Europeans were suspicious of the tomato, and they (C) the tomato was viewed with suspicion by northern Europeans, who (D) the tomato was suspicious to northern Europeans, and it was (E) the tomato was viewed with suspicion by northern Europeans, it being 272.Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, according to three research studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine. (A) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for (B) be significant in reducing the risk of heart attacks and aid for (C) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and aid (D) cause a significant reduction in the risk of heart attacks and aid to (E) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks as well as aiding 273.Efforts to equalize the funds available to school districts, a major goal of education reformers and many states in the 1970’s, has not significantly reduced the gaps existing between the richest and poorest districts. (A) has not significantly reduced the gaps existing (B) has not been significant in reducing the gap that exists (C) has not made a significant reduction in the gap that exists (D) have not significantly reduced the gap that exists (E) have not been significant in a reduction of the gaps existing 274.Egyptians are credited as having pioneered embalming methods as long ago as 2650 B.C. (A) as having (B) with having (C) to have 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 73 (D) as the ones who (E) for being the ones who 275.El Nino, the periodic abnormal warming of the sea surface off Peru, a phenomenon in which changes in the ocean and atmosphere combine allowing the warm water that has accumulated in the western Pacific to flow back to the east. (A) a phenomenon in which changes in the ocean and atmosphere combine allowing the warm water that has accumulated (B) a phenomenon where changes in the ocean and atmosphere are combining to allow the warm water that is accumulating (C) a phenomenon in which ocean and atmosphere changes combine and which allows the warm water that is accumulated (D) is a phenomenon in which changes in the ocean and atmosphere combine to allow the warm water that has accumulated (E) is a phenomenon where ocean and atmosphere changes are combining and allow the warm water accumulating 276.Erasmus Montanus, a seventeenth-century farce written by Ludwig Holberg, both predates and resembles Moliere’s Tartuffe and is therefore thought to be one of Moliere’s sources. (A) both predates and resembles (B) it both predates and resembles (C) both predated and resembles (D) has both predated and resembled (E) because it both predated and resembled 277.Europe’s travel industry is suffering as a result of a sluggish economy, a stretch of bad weather, as well as the chilling effects of terrorist activity that is persistent . (A) as well as the chilling effects of terrorist activity that is persistent (B) and the chilling effect of terrorist activity that is persistent (C) but persistent terrorist activity has had a chilling effect too (D) and the chilling effects of persistent terrorist activity (E) as well as the chilling effects of terrorist activity that persists 278.Europeans have long known that eating quail sometimes makes the eater ill, but only recently has it been established that the illness is caused by a toxin present in the quail’s body only under certain conditions. (A) Europeans have long known that eating quail sometimes makes (B) Europeans have long known quail eating is sometimes able to make (C) Eating quail has long been known to Europeans to sometimes make (D) It has long been known to Europeans that quail eating will sometimes make 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 74 (E) It has long been known to Europeans that quail, when it is eaten, has sometimes made 279.Even as they never forgave the Crusaders who overran their homeland, the Syrians have never absolved the French for taking territory from them. (A) Even as they never forgave (B) While they never forgave (C) Just like they never forgave (D) Similarly to not forgiving (E) In spite of their never forgiving 280.Even astronomers were amazed at the success of the Neptune flyby, which produced a photograph of a previously undetected moon; this is likely to result in increased governmental support for the hitherto neglected U.S. space program. (A) this is likely to result in (B) that will cause (C) and which is likely to result in (D) this success is likely to result in (E) it is likely to result with 281.Even their most ardent champions concede that no less than a technical or scientific breakthrough is necessary before solar cells can meet the goal of providing one percent of the nation’s energy needs. (A) that no less than a technical or scientific breakthrough is necessary (B) that nothing other than a technical or scientific breakthrough is needed (C) that a technical or scientific breakthrough is necessary (D) the necessity for an occurrence of a technical or scientific breakthrough (E) the necessity for a technical or scientific breakthrough occurring 282.Even though Béla Bartók’s music has proved less popular than Igor Stravinsky’s and less influential than Arnold Schonberg’s, it is no less important. (A) Stravinsky’s and less influential than Arnold Schonberg’s, it (B) Stravinsky’s and less influential than Arnold Schonberg’s, he (C) Stravinsky’s is and less influential than Arnold Schonberg’s is, it (D) Stravinsky and not as influential as Arnold Schonberg, he (E) Stravinsky and not as influential as Arnold Schonberg, it 283.Even though its per capita food supply hardly increased during two decades, stringent rationing and planned distribution have allowed the People’s Republic of China to ensure nutritional levels of 2,000 calories per person per day for its population. (A) Even though its per capita food supply hardly increased during 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 75 (B) Even though its per capita food supply has hardly increased in (C) Despite its per capita food supply hardly increasing over (D) Despite there being hardly any increase in its per capita food supply during (E) Although there is hardly any increase in per capita food supply for 284.Even though the direct costs of malpractice disputes amounts to a sum lower than one percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays major role in health-care inflation. (A) amounts to a sum lower (B) amounts to less (C) amounted to less (D) amounted to lower (E) amounted to a lower sum 285.Even though the state has spent ten years and seven million dollars planning a reservoir along the Ubi River, the project will have to be abandoned as a result of the river becoming so heavily polluted. (A) will have to be abandoned as a result of the river becoming so heavily polluted (B) is to be abandoned on account of the heavy pollution which the river received (C) had to be abandoned because the river had received such heavy pollution (D) has to be abandoned because of the river and its heavy pollution (E) must be abandoned because the river has become so heavily polluted 286.Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills its victims unless inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease. (A) its victims unless inoculated (B) its victims unless they are inoculated (C) its victims unless inoculation is done (D) the victims unless there is an inoculation (E) the victims unless inoculated 287.Everyone participating in the early sociological study committed a crucial methodological error by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their data. (A) by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their (B) by failing fully to consider alternative ways of classifying their (C) they failed to consider alternative ways to classify their (D) by not fully considering alternative ways to classify the (E) by not considering fully alternative ways of classifying his or her 288.Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott . credited as having pioneered embalming methods as long ago as 2 650 B.C. (A) as having (B) with having (C) to have 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com. capita food supply hardly increased during 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 75 (B) Even though its per capita food supply has hardly. output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 down to its nadir in 1933. 1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions Collected by: www.dethi.com & www.xeom.net 71 (A) During