5 strategies GMAT likes to use to distort meaning 1. Change placement of modifiers - make sure the modifier is positioned correctly and makes sense 2. Use of modifiers a. Verb-ed modifier modifies the previous noun b. Verb-ing modifier modifies the previous clause c. Noun noun modifier - very versatile - can describe any noun 3. Change of conjunctions 4. Change of voice - make sure if you go back and forth with voice, the person speaking is correct 5. Change / remove words that provide context

Which dialogue introduces a conflict?

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she dwelt among the untrodden ways beside the springs of dove, a maid whom there were none to praise and very few to love: a violet by a mossy stone half hidden from the eye! --fair as a star, when only one is shining in the sky. she lived unknown, and few could know when lucy ceased to be; but she is in her grave, and, oh, the difference to me! (wordsworth, “she dwelt among the untrodden ways”) which option explains a meaning implied by the use of the adjective untrodden in the excerpt? the maid was lost in the woods. the maid lived in a rural setting. the maid was a nature spirit. the maid suffered a life without joy.

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.