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Explanatory Material: Sentence Correction The following discussion is intended to familiarize you with the most efficient and effective approaches to sentence correction questions. The particular questions in this chapter are generally representative of the kinds of questions you will encounter in the GMAT. Remember that it is the problem-solving strategy that is important, not the specific details of a particular question. The Wallerstein study indicates that even after a decade young men and women still experience some of the effects of a divorce occurring when a child. occurring when a child occurring when children that occurred when a child that occurred when they were children that has occurred as each was a child Choice D is best. The phrasing a divorce that occurred when they were children correctly uses the relative clause that occurred to modify a divorce and includes a pronoun and verb (they were) that refer unambiguously to their antecedent, men and women. Choice A incorrectly introduces the when... phrase with occurring, thus illogically making divorce the grammatical referent of when a child; furthermore, the singular child does not agree with the plural men and women. B replaces child with children but otherwise fails to correct As errors of structure and logic, and C corrects only the error created by occurring. Choice E includes an incorrect verb tense (has occurred) and wrongly replaces when with as. Also, each was does not properly refer to men and women. 2. Since 1981, when the farm depression began, the number of acres overseen by professional farm-management companies have grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, an area that is about Colorados size. have grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, an area that is about Colorados size have grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, about the size of Colorado has grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, an area about the size of Colorado has grown from 48 million up to nearly 59 million,