Pronouns:
Classified as 6 types
As a subj:I,you,He,She,It,We,you,they
As an object:me,you her,him,it,us,you,them
As Possessive:my,mine,your,yours,his,her,hers,its,our,ours,your,yours,their,theirs(mine,yours,hers,ours and theirs are not followed by nouns)
- Reflexive Pronouns:myself,yourself,herself,himself,itself,oneself,ourselves,yourselves,themselves
used when action is directed back upon itself,i.e, subj and obj is same
Reflexive pronouns cannot be used as subj; Ann and myself studie together (WRONG)
Rel pronoun always introduces a relative clause in a sent(adj or nouns)
who,whoever- - refer to ppl only
that- - ppl or things
which - - things
what,whatever,whichever - - things
- Interrogative pronouns : used to ask questions
all relative pronouns except that are interrogative pronouns
- Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those - - used to point to things/ppl
- Indefinie pronouns: end in -body,-thing,-one ; always singular
Pronoun Antecedents:
-shud be clearly undrstood and must agree in no. and gender to the noun that it replaces
-if antecdent is not clear then supply the noun in place of the pronoun
-if forms such as 'they', 'you' are used vaguely then provide the noun. Eg. They managed the store well. CORRECT The store cashiers managed the store well
-if pronoun and antecedent are not close to each other then,again, correct it
List of plural pronouns : both,few,many,others, several
SANAM - some,any,none,all,most/more - depends on anecedent
other indefinite pronouns such as anyone,each etc are always singular
nouns such as army,jury,audience,class - - singular
After having finished reviewing the MGMAT Number properties ( The General Part), I have moved on to the next book. I chose to start with the Strategy Guide 3,Equations, Inequalities and VICs . The topics covered in this book were very easy to me(thanks to my Math background!) and I took one whole day to review the General Part of this book. So the plan for this week is to finish review of the Strategy Guide 3 and also do some reading from the MGMAT Sentence Correction guide , the first 4 chapters along with corresponding Official Guide Problems.
Week 2:
Strategy Guide 3 MGMAT
MGMAT SC book - Chapters 1,2,3 and 4
OG Problems for Strategy Guide 3
You must be wondering what I have been doing. Well, I finished with the number properties book. I need to spend today and tommorow doing some problems from the Official Guide. Along with this book ,I finished a review of the related chapters in the Foundations of Math book. I have also kept in touch with my basic grammar review.
Nouns and Articles
- Nouns are names. They indicate people,places,things and abstract ideas(anger, biology etc)
- Noun phrases:noun and some closely related additional words Eg. funny(adj) clown(noun)
- Noun clause:entire clause acts as a noun. Eg. They ate all that was on the table(all that was on the table = food / whatever)
- ask question 'who' or 'what' to find subjects
- to locate the direct object ask the question ' whom' or 'what'
- to locate indirect object ask the quest ' to/from whom' or 'to/from what'
- Indirect obj always comes before DO if both are present in a sentence
- Prepositional phrases: on the table, in the kitchen; they function as adjectives or adverbs
- Articles: A,An and The
Sentence Basics
- Sentences are of two parts: Subjects and Predicate
- Subj is a place,person or thing
- Predicate says something about the subject
Eg. The hungry lions / ate everything
S P
- Linking Verbs : link subjects to verbs such as to be,appear,seem,feel
Parts of Speech:
- Noun:places,people or things
- Articles:A,an and the - used to refer to nouns
- Pronous:replace nouns
- Verbs:describe actions or conditions
- Adjectives: modify nouns and pronouns. Eg. small house
- Adverbs:modify verbs,adj or other adverbs;end in -ly;they answer question 'how','when','where'
- Conjunctions:connect words,phrases and clauses ;eg and,but,yet,nor,although,while,after etc
- Prepositions:connect nouns,pronouns and noun phrases to other words in sentences and indicates relationships between them. Eg: to,from,with
Phrases and Clauses
- Phrases are combinations of words within sentences that go together;they express a single idea
- there are noun phrases,verb phrases and prepositional phrases
- Clauses contain subj and predicate and can be complete sentences too
- Two types of clauses independent and dependent
- indep clause is onethat can stand alone as a sentence
- dep clause beginwith conjuctions such as although,while or a relative pronous such as who,which or that
Types of sentences
- Simple Sent:consists of a simple indep clause
- compound sent:has 2 indep clauses each with its own verb
- complex sent:consists of indep clause and dep clause(acts as a modifier). Eg. When we heard how much TV repairs would cost, we decided to get a new TV set.
- compd complessent: has 2 or more indep clauses and atleast 1 dep clause
Sentence Patterns
- S-V Eg. the woman arrived
- S-V-Do Eg. She sharpened her chisel in the backyard
- S-V-Do-Oc(noun or adj that describbes the Do) Eg.Alice called Charles amusing
- S-V-Io(tells to whom or for whom the direct obj is intended)-Do Eg. Alice gave charles the rabbit
- S-Lv(is)-SC(not Do but refers to same thing as subj) Eg. Alice is happy(happy =Sc)
A sentence frag is an incomplete sentence (add missing element to corrrect it)and a run-on sent(add a period,semi-colon or conjunction to correct it) is two sent incorrectly punctuated as a single sent
Finished chapter 4 of the basic grammar book. This chapter deals with verbs and related sub topics. It is Jan 2nd today and I'm in no mood to study seriously. We are planning to go to Times Square this afternoon - Yay!!I'm so excited. It's going to be a good break for me.In the coming 4-5 days, I plan to finish the number properties book. Unfortunately, I ordered the book on Amazon only 3 days back and it has,thus,still not reached me. This is the book that I am talking about.
Some important concepts(Coutesy: Foundations of GMAT Math by Manhattan GMAT)
Number Properties
If 6 is divisible by 1,2,3 and 6 then 1,2,3 and 6 are factors of 6
Numbers divisible by 1 and itself
2 is the only even prime number
2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19 are some prime numbers
Breaking a number into its prime factors. Eg. 60=2*2*3*5
- If 12 is divisible by 6 and 6 is divisible by 3 then 12 is divisible by 3 as well
- If x no. of apples can be spli evenly into 5 groups =>divisiblity problem
- If the number q is divisble by 9,18 and 27 then find LCM of the 3 numbers to find multiples of q
