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GMAT Sentence Correction Review
1. Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, {often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.}
(A)often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.
(B)whose reputation declines after death and never regains its status again.
(C)but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status
(D)who declines in reputation after death and who never regained poppularity again
(E)then has declined in reputation after death and never regained popularity

2.Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city's mayor {proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize} hundreds of local arts groups.
(A)proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major culutral institutions and to subsidize
(B)proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city's major cultural insititutions and for subsidizing
(C)proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize
(D)has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city's major cultural insitutions, and to subsidize
(E)was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaing the city's major cultural insittuions and for the subsidization
3.From the bark of the paper birch tree the Menomini crafted a canoe about twenty feet long and two feet wide, with small ribs and rails of cedar, which could carry fout persons or eight hundred pounds of {baggage so light} that a person could easily portage it around impeding rapids.
(A)baggage so light
(B)baggage being so light
(C)baggage, yet being so light
(D)baggage, and so light
(E)baggage yet was so light
4.Analysts blamed May's sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise as well as the weather, {colder and wetter than was usual in some regions, which slowed} sales of barbeque grills and lawn furniture.
(A)colder and wetter than was usual in some regions, which slowed
(B)which was colder and wetter than usual in some regions, slowing
(C)since it was colder and wetter than usually in some regions, which slowed
(D)being colder and wetter than was usually in some regions, slowing
(E)having been colder and wetter than was usual in some regions and slowed
5.{Unlike transplants between identical twins, whose genetic endowment is the same,} all patients receiving hears or other organs must take antirejection drugs for the rest of their lives.
(A)Unlike transplants between identical twins, whose genetic endowment is the same
(B)Besides transplants involving identical twins with the same genetic endowment
(C)Unless the transplant involves identical twins, who have the same genetic endowment
(D)Aside from a transplants between identical twins with the same genetic endowment
(E)Other than transplants between identical twins, whose genetic endowment is the same
6.Scientists believe that unlike the males of most species of moth, the maile whistling moths of Nambung, Australia, call female moths to them {by the use of acoustical signals, but not olfactory ones, and they attract} their mates during the day, rather than at night.
(A)by the use of acoustical signals, but not olfactory ones, and they attract
(B)by the use of acoustical signals instead of using olfactory ones, and attracting
(C)by using acoustical signals, not using olfactory ones, and by attracting
(D)using acoustical signals, rather than olfactory ones, and attract
(E)using acoustical signals, but not olfactory ones, and attracting
7.In 1791 Robert Carter III, one of the wealthiest plantation owners in Virginia, stunned his family, friends and neighbors by filing a deed of emancipation, {setting free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered} his property.
(A)setting free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered
(B)setting free more than the 500 slaves legally considered as
(C)and set free more than 500 slaves, who were legally considered as
(D)and set free more than the 500 slaves who were legally considered
(E)and he set free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered as
8.An inventory equal to 90 days sales is {as much as even} the strongest business carry, and then only as a way to anticipate higher prices or ensure against shortages.
(A)as much as even
(B)so much as even
(C)even so much as
(D)even as much as
(E)even so much thatfficeffice" />