CORRECTION OF ERRORS

Together these three (Subject-Verb Agreement, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement & Faulty Sentence Structure) related skills appeared 5 times across 36 questions and showed up in 3 of the 4 regional papers analyzed (UHS, KMU, SIBA), with subject-verb agreement rated easy and both pronoun-antecedent agreement and parallelism rated moderate — making this cluster a near-guaranteed, high-value scoring area.

Where students commonly go wrong:

• Matching the verb to the nearest noun instead of the true subject, especially when a phrase intervenes between them
• Treating quantifier subjects like “each,” “every,” and “none” as plural when they are grammatically singular
• Treating collective nouns like “board,” “team,” and “committee” as plural and pairing them with “their” instead of “its”
• Getting confused between “his/her” and “their” with gender-neutral antecedents like “everyone” and “each”
• Mixing infinitive and gerund forms within one list (for example, after “aims to”), where each verb sounds fine alone but the series as a whole is inconsistent

A genuine practical tip: since all three rules break down to “does everything in this sentence stay consistent with the same anchor word,” train yourself to first locate the one true subject or antecedent in a sentence, ignore every phrase between it and the verb or pronoun, and then re-scan the sentence a second time specifically for verb form consistency across any list or series — most errors hide in that gap between the anchor and the rest of the sentence.

Why this practice set helps:

• Covers every distinct case and variation of these three topics identified from real MDCAT papers, including the specific situations where students must tell one topic’s error apart from another’s
• Each correct answer comes with a detailed explanation of the underlying grammar rule, so you learn the principle, not just memorize one instance
• Close, commonly confused options are explained specifically, helping you understand exactly why the tempting wrong answer is wrong, including cases where the “trap” option represents a different topic in this group entirely

Mastering the specific cases and cross-topic traps in this set builds the same consistency-scanning instinct the exam is actually testing, so you can spot these errors quickly and confidently under time pressure.