GMAT 오답노트 : sentence correction

The direction and length of the bee’s dance tells its fellow foragers where honey will be found out.

		tells its fellow foragers where honey will be found out
		tells its fellow foragers where they will find honey
		tells where honey will be found out by its fellow foragers
		tell where honey will be found to its fellow foragers
		tell its fellow foragers where they will find honey

The discovery of gold near Deadwood, South Dakota, drew adventurers and created economic competition, leading to violence that claimed as many as 100 lives. leading to violence that claimed as many as 100 lives leading to violence that claimed as much as 100 lives with the effect of violence that claimed as much as 100 lives with the effect that violence claimed as many as 100 lives lost and led to violence that claimed as many as 100 lives

An unconfirmed nominee doing nothing to advance the administration’s judicial goals, the president will not consider controversial candidates. An unconfirmed nominee doing nothing to advance the administration’s judicial goals, the president will not consider any controversial candidates. That nominees do nothing to advance the administration’s judicial goals unless confirmed, which is why the president will not consider controversial candidates. The reason that the president will not consider a controversial candidate is because he will do nothing to advance the administrations judicial goals unless he is confirmed. Because nominees do nothing to advance the administration’s judicial goals unless confirmed, the president will not consider controversial candidates. Nothing is done for the judicial goals of the administration by an unconfirmed candidate, which is why the president will not consider any controversial candidate.

Although the tarantula rarely bites and is much less venomous than either the black widow or the brown recluse, its fangs are of such size and power that they can be a cause of mechanical damage. its fangs are of such size and power that they can be a cause of mechanical damage its fangs are so large and powerful as to cause mechanical damage such are the size and power of its fangs that they can be a cause of mechanical damage their fangs are large and powerful enough to cause of mechanical damage such are the size and power of its fangs that it can cause mechanical damage

For an in-house public relations department, the budget is often quite different from that of other departments, because operating expenditures are low and payroll is high, as the corporation, rather than the department, absorbs most non-payroll office expenses. low and payroll is high, as the corporation, rather than the department, absorbs low and their payroll is high as they, rather than the corporation, absorb low with higher payroll in the process of absorbing low, as payroll is higher as the corporation, rather than the department, absorbs low, but its payroll is higher in the corporation's effort to absorb

Unlike the United States, where students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, students in Europeenjoy a wholly different system, in which they take exams on specified subjects before leaving secondary school, essentially choosing a major at sixteen or seventeen years of age. Unlike the United States, where students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, students in Europe Unlike United States students who usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, the schools in Europe Unlike those of the United States, in which students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, most of Europe's students In contrast to the United States, whose students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, the students in most of Europe In the United States, students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, but in most of Europe, students :  Answer Choice (E) is the only choice that correctly compares students in the United with students in Europe.

Within the global warming discussion, scientists still dispute about whether current estimation techniques are adequate to determine climate sensitivity—a measure of how responsive the temperature of the climate system is to a change in the radiative forcing. about whether as to whether whether whether or not if The word "whether" presents a number of problems, so it is likely to be tested on the GMAT. In this instance, an idiomatic expression is at issue. The word "dispute" can be followed by the word "about" only when "dispute" is used as a noun, as in an argument. Here, "dispute" is a verb. So, it is incorrect to have the word "about" follow "dispute."

Although tomatoes were once regarded as poisonous, they are now seen as full of compounds essential for a healthy diet. were once regarded as had once been regarded as were once regarded as being had once regarded to be have once been regarded as

Many people think of Isaac Asimov to be solely a science fiction writer, but Asimov is the only author to have published books in all of the Dewey Decimal System’s 10 major library classifications.

		Many people think of Isaac Asimov to be
		Many people think of Isaac Asimov being
		Many people think of Isaac Asimov as
		Many people think of Isaac Asimov as being
		Isaac Asimov may be thought of, by most people, as

Due to the enormous coincidence of conditions that must exist to support intelligent life, many people believe that Earth is the only such planet in the universe. to support for the support of for supporting for a planet’s supporting for a planet to support The major error in this sentence is revealed by the phrase "only such planet." A phrase using “such” in this manner must have a relevant antecedent somewhere else in the sentence. However, the sentence as written has no such antecedent to which it can refer.

Through analysis of a microsite, which is a small area containing many fossils, a paleontologist can reconstruct a local ecosystem as it had been millions of years ago. it had been it might have been it was if during a time though it were

When we read the original sentence, we should note it had been is in the past perfect tense, which should only be used to describe action that is completed earlier than some other past action (expressed in the simple past tense). Since the other action (can reconstruct) is not in the past tense, the past perfect is incorrect. Therefore, choice (A) is incorrect.