GMAT Verbal Section Skills - Grammar and Sentence Structure

The verbal section of the GMAT consists of three primary types of questions, which includes critical reasoning questions, reading comprehension questions, and grammar and sentence structure questions. The grammar and sentence structure questions included on the exam are designed to evaluate an individual's understanding of the basic grammatical and structural concepts of the English language. In other words, these questions allow the exam-taker to demonstrate his or her ability to identify basic mistakes in English grammar and his or her ability to move words around in a sentence so the sentence makes sense or simply sounds better. Each of these questions will present the individual with a sentence that is grammatically incorrect, does not make sense the way it is written, or could be improved in some fashion and the individual will have to improve or correct the sentence as necessary. For example, the individual might be given the sentence "Jimmy and me like playing video games" and a series of options that indicate different ways of rewriting the sentence. The exam-taker would then choose the option that best corrects the sentence's grammar and structure, which might be in this case "Jimmy and I like playing video games" since Jimmy and I is the subject of the sentence and the word "me" cannot be used as a subject. However, this is a very simple example and the questions on the exam will usually not be as simple as the one given here, but the individual will ultimately be required to identify the correction for similar types of errors. The verbal section of the GMAT usually includes approximately 13 to 15 questions related to correcting grammar and sentence structure.