1. GRE Grammar Book - Introduction
2. GRE Grammar Book - Basic elements of a sentence

The GRE is a challenging task to overcome, obtaining a satisfactory score: not only the quant part is troublesome but also, and for several reasons, even more challenging, the verbal part is quite confusing and complicated.

Over the years, I do notice here on the forum that there are always the following consistent patterns among the students:

1. The students think it is solely and exclusively a vocabulary question. What I mean by that: the students have a sentence with a blank, and the only goal they see is if the word sounds good and fits into the blank without any possible evaluation of the sentence, its structure, and the consequent meaning as a whole.
2. Often, the students cannot grasp part of the sentence, if not wholly, or they do not understand the relationship among the different parts of the sentence.
3. Sometimes, the sentence needs to be rearranged so that it is easier to grasp the meaning. A sort of reverse engineering but the students do not know which is which: the part that is a dependent clause from which one is an independent clause.

Moreover, if we take a look at the Overview of the Verbal Reasoning Measure it is nowhere stated that this is a test of the more I know vocabulary words the more I will score better.



I do not see ANY possible reference that this is a test based on how many words I do know or memorize. It is a test of critical thinking if you read carefully above.

• analyze and evaluate written material;
• what information and clues we do have;
• the relationship among the part of the sentence;
• the relationship between part of the sentence or the sentence as a whole and words (the blanks) and concepts they express.

To sustain and reinforce the concept above, it is also crucial you understand why knowing a ton of vocabulary words will not help that much in your GRE journey for the following reasons:

• a word could have a subtle or nuance in its meaning; when you insert that specific word into the sentence, everything depends on the context of the sentence. Therefore, that specific word, depending on the context, could be right or wrong;
• Even if you memorize 10k words, the variation we have in the English Language is almost infinite. As such, knowing words is just a minor task. Your main goal is to understand the sentence, its meaning, if you do have clues, and to eliminate that non-essential information is just inserted to confuse you

We are NOT saying that the knowledge of a robust set of vocabs is NOT essential to score well on the GRE. The caveat is that ONLY knowing vocabs will not help you to beat this challenging exam. Likewise, knowing just a bunch of geometry formulas will not help you to score well on the quant section. The GRE is a game, a puzzle, a strategy. In the end, a critical reasoning test.

For such very good reasons, we have created the GRE Prep Club grammar book for the GRE.

• Do you want to understand a sentence in its intimacy?
• Are you interested to recognize every possible sentence structure tested on the GRE?
• Do you want to improve also your writing for the AWA section?

The answer to the above questions is pretty obvious: use our book.















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