SC Modifiers

Official Guide practice (find these in your Official Guide or at www.gmatclub.com)

SC01455 In a speech before the Senate Banking Committee

SC08150.02 Satellite radio transmissions

SC03881 Air traffic routes over the North Pole

SC91660.02 By skimming along the top of the atmosphere,

SC02102 In the seventh century B.C.,

SC12841.01 Regulators are likely to end what are,

SC04562 Written early in the French Revolution,

SC01595 Normally a bone becomes fossilized

SC01507 Over the past ten years cultivated sunflowers

SC00985 Not trusting themselves

SC04760 Over the next few years,

SC00994 Digging in sediments in northern China,

SC02448 Having been named for a mythological nymph

SC01523 When viewed from the window

SC01487 The English physician Edward Jenner

SC01493 Through experimenting designed to provide

SC14796 In some types of pine tree,

SC08577 The tourism commission

SC02060 Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt

SC02317 Companies are relying more and more

SC03292 Yellow jackets number among the 900

SC06633 Almost like clones in their similarity

Reflection task

Here are the modifiers that appear in the video. These are the most common kinds of modifiers on the GMAT. Look again at the above problems and find examples of each of these modifiers correct answer choices. Knowing how the GMAT is likely to use modifiers will help you solve problems more quickly in the future.

NOUN / VERB + prepositional phrase

opening modifier, NOUN

CLAUSE, -ing

NOUN that

NOUN, which, who, where, etc.

NOUN, NOUN

NOUN -ing

CLAUSE, NOUN + modifier