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GMAT Verbal Foundations
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logic-and-reasoning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Created by using compound words - hyphenated words or related words. The two words used are combined to create a descriptive adjective. (i.e. broken-hearted - lemon-lime)
Linking Verb
Compound Verb
Possessive Adjectives
Compound Adjectives
2. Do not start with a capital letter; -do not refer to something specific: plane - car - cats - animals; -can be subdivided into countable or uncountable nouns;
Verbs Tenses
Helping Verb
Linking Verb
Proper Nouns
3. A verb that expresses either physical or mental action by subject - can be either transitive or intransitive (or both) -physical: play - swim - jump - punch - run - kick - walk -mental: think - dream - love - rejoice - muse - ponder
Relative Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Verbs
Action Verb
4. Indicative mood - imperative mood - subjunctive mood
Adjectives
Verb Mood
Count Nouns
Verb Moods
5. Am - are - is - was - were - will - would - be - being - been - may - might - must.
Helping Verb examples
Compared
Mass Nouns
Verb Mood
6. Subjunctive Mood used to express ________________________ - I wish you were mine - I suggest that you be on time
Count Nouns
Helping Verb examples
a wish - an emotion - a possibility - or an action that has not yet occurred
Compound Verbs
7. Will go - has been eating - is writing - had swollen - should have gone
Compound Verbs
Proper Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
Gerunds
8. Active - passive
Indefinite Pronouns
Verb Voices
Verbs
Relative Pronouns
9. Used to express a command or a request. - the subject of an imperative sentence is usually understood to be 'you' ex. Come to the library with me.
Verbs
Imperative Mood
Compound Verb
Count Nouns
10. Do not point out specific people - places or things -do not usually have antecedents -Always are singular - all - another - any - anybody - anyone - anthything - both - each - either - everybody - everyone - everything - few - many - more - most - m
Conjunctions
Imperative Mood
Indefinite Pronouns
Possessive Adjectives
11. Used as: -pronoun: One should learn grammar. -noun: One is the loneliest number. -adjective: I have only one pencil.
12. Expresses what the writer believes about - or wants to do with - the action expressed by the verb - indicative mood >> expresses facts - imperative mood >> commands - subjunctive mood: >> unlikely or unreal conditions (usually after if or similar wor
Infinitives
Verb Mood
Imperative Mood
Compound Verbs
13. Require a comma before each in a sentence - (for - and - nor - but - or - yet - so)
Verb Moods
Compound Adjectives
Verb Mood
Coordinating conjunctions
14. Doesn't mix well with other pronouns - eg Wrong: One must be careful to account for all sources of income on your tax return -it is okay to use 'one' as a pronoun in a sentence when the other pronouns refer to different things - eg: Fire is alluring
15. Refers to the one speaking (first person) - the one spoken to (second person) - or the one spoken about (third person) - takes the place of a noun or nouns; they show number and gender; example: singular: I - me - my - mine - you - your - yours - he
Intensifying an Adjective
Personal Pronoun
Indefinite Pronouns
Helping Verb
16. Show ownership -sometimes used an adjective -my - mine - your - yours - his - her - hers - its - our - ours - their - theirs
Helping Verb examples
Possessive Pronouns
Indicative Mood
Linking Verb
17. Join ideas together - eg: Jayneny caught the ball and threw it to second base.
Conjunctions
Indefinite Pronouns
Noun
Compared
18. Used to ask a question - who - whom - whose - what - and which
Interrogative Pronouns
Indicative Mood
Mass Nouns
Personal Pronoun
19. Names a person - place - thing - or idea - a word that can serve as the subject or object of a verb
Conjunctions
Sentence
Noun
Gerunds
20. A noun that requires different modifiers such as 'little' and 'much' -do not have a plural form -Use: Amount of.... -Use: Less... I have less stress
Mass Nouns
'One' appearing as a pronoun
'One'
Reflexive Pronouns
21. Nouns cannot be __________ by adding 'er' or 'est' to Absolute Adjectives. Use 'more nearly' or 'most nearly' to compare items using absolute adjectives. -eg: more nearly circular (not: more circular) -eg: more likely fatal (not: more fatal)
Articles
Compared
Personal Pronoun
Verbs Tenses
22. Singular One - -body - -thing - each
Linking Verb
Absolute Adjectives
Intensifying an Adjective
Indefinite Pronouns
23. Xomparative & superlative forms -(-er - -est; or -ier - iest; or more- - most-) -smart - smarter - smartest -good - better - best - intelligent - more intelligent - most intelligent
Compound Verbs
Intensifying an Adjective
Infinitives
Personal Pronoun
24. This - that - these - those - none and neither - point out people - places - or things without naming them
Verb Voices
Articles
Demonstrative Pronouns
Gerunds
25. Pronouns that are used after action verbs as direct or indirect objects and as objects of prepositional phrases - Pronoun form used when the word receives the action of the sentence or a preposition: him - her - them - whom - you - it - can be used a
Object Pronouns
'They'
Indefinite Pronouns
'One'
26. Can have more than 1 helping verb - an adverb can separate individual verbs in the compound verb - eg: He HAS frequently DEFACED public property. ________________: has defaced
Compound Verb
Interrogative Pronouns
Linking Verb
Adjectives
27. Describes action - a state of being - or what is being done to something or someone - critical part of a sentence's predicate - to laugh - to think - to drive - to run - to be - to do - accomplishes - is - went - arose - decided
Possessive pronouns used as Possessive Adjectives
'One'
Mass Nouns
Verbs
28. End in -self or -selves and refer to an earlier noun or pronoun in the sentence - myself - yourself - himself - herself - itself - ourselves - yourselves - themselves - Wrong: Bill will be sitting next to Jayne and myself.
Verb Voices
Absolute Adjectives
a wish - an emotion - a possibility - or an action that has not yet occurred
Reflexive Pronouns
29. His car - its prey - other pronouns as adjectives: whose - which - this - that - these - those - all - both - some
Gerunds
Possessive pronouns used as Possessive Adjectives
Verb Moods
Absolute Adjectives
30. The verb form used to wish - hypothesize - or recommend. It can be used when a clause begins with 'if' and is contrary to fact: 'If I were President'(I am not President) or when a clause begins with 'that' and follows verbs such as 'ask' - 'insist' -
Compound Adjectives
Conjunctions
Verb Voices
Subjunctive Mood
31. Refer to groups composed of members; -always singular; -eg: administration - army - society - family - couple
Collective Nouns
Imperative Mood
Infinitives
Proper Nouns
32. Cannot be the main verb of a sentence - can be subjects of sentences or objects - another type of verbal that can be used as a noun - adjective - or an adverb (doesn't end in '-ing' - usually has 'to' before a verb; not a prepositional phrase!) - to
Verbs
Possessive pronouns used as Possessive Adjectives
Infinitives
Verbs Tenses
33. Consists of two or more verbs - sometimes are joined by a coordinating conjunction (e.g. FANBOYS) and have the same subject.
Compound Verbs
Action Verb
Relative Pronouns
Proper Adjectives
34. Can't be intensified -absolute eg: dead - square - essential - universal - immortal - absolute
Absolute Adjectives
Proper Nouns
Check Gerund
Gerunds
35. Countable -preceded by a number - e.g. one book - two books -have a plural form -Use: Number of.... A great number of friends have shown me great amount of kindness. Use: Fewer... This lane is for people with 3 items or fewer.
Coordinating conjunctions
Infinitives
Indefinite Pronouns
Count Nouns
36. Joins a dependent clause to an independent clause (who - whom - whose - which - that and all of the W's + ever) -introduce modifiers - introduces an Adjective Clause or a Noun Clause; -eg:That - Which - Who - Whom - Whose - Where - Why - What.
Gerunds
Relative Pronouns
Articles
Interrogative Pronouns
37. A verbal that ends in -ing and acts as a noun -can be subjects of a sentence - Skiing is a popular winter sport. (Skiing - Sub)
Reflexive Pronouns
Object Pronouns
Gerunds
Verb Moods
38. -an '-ing' word without a helping verb isn't a real verb - CHECK: substitute a noun in the gerunds place - I am boxing (Compound verb: am boxing) I love boxing (Gerund: boxing - verb: love)
Helping Verb examples
Gerund vs. Verb
Compound Verbs
Compound Verbs
39. Shows possession or ownership. They have antecedents. Must agree with its antecedent in person - number - and gender: Jayne has a skateboard. His skateboard is silver. Jo and Luis have bikes. Their bikes are new.
Infinitives
Check Gerund
Proper Nouns
Possessive Adjectives
40. Indefinite pronouns don't usually have one -'you' is often used without one -'it' may not need one if it come at the start of a sentence - eg: It is raining. It is hoped that the taxes will be payed.
Antecedent
Compound Verbs
Quality Noun
Noun
41. Formed from a proper noun: Roman ruins - Mexican food - Japanese
Proper Adjectives
Possessive Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns
'They'
42. Substitute the -ing word with a noun - sentence should make sense - eg: Dating is tricky --> Algebra is tricky (dating = gerund)
Compound Adjectives
Noun
a wish - an emotion - a possibility - or an action that has not yet occurred
Check Gerund
43. Singular/plural Some - any - none - all - many - more - based on 'of construction'
Compound Adjectives
Verb Voices
Possessive pronouns used as Possessive Adjectives
Indefinite Pronouns
44. Made from adj. - Clean= cleanliness - Fluid = fluidity
Personal Pronoun
Infinitives
Quality Noun
Object Pronouns
45. 1. does NOT show action 2. shows state-of-being 3. links the subject to a noun or adjective - He SEEMS nice - Otto IS a miniature bulldog
Indefinite Pronouns
Linking Verb
Indefinite Pronouns
Personal Pronoun
46. Used to make a statement or ask a question. Most sentences are in the __________ - Do you like to play baseball? - I learned to play last year. - Baseball is my favorite game.
Verb Moods
Indicative Mood
Indefinite Pronouns
Mass Nouns
47. Always needs a clear antecedent - same is true of them - their - it (sometimes) - its
48. Made from verbs - remove --> removal - discuss--> discussion - cry --> cry
Action Verb
Check Gerund
Action Nouns
Mass Nouns
49. Past - present - future
a wish - an emotion - a possibility - or an action that has not yet occurred
Coordinating conjunctions
Conjunctions
Verbs Tenses
50. Adjectives: a - an - the
Personal Pronoun
Subjunctive Mood
Articles
Proper Adjectives