Master subject–verb agreement across collective nouns, indefinite pronouns, and inverted sentences. Examiners love inserting distracting prepositional phrases between subject and verb.
Parallelism appears in sentence improvement items: items joined by and or or should share grammatical form. Misplaced modifiers are another staple—ensure descriptive phrases sit beside the nouns they intend to modify.
Drill ten targeted questions daily, logging grammar rule names beside mistakes. Pattern awareness beats memorizing abstract definitions alone.
Parallelism in lists
When items are joined by commas, ensure each item shares grammatical form—verbs with verbs, nouns with nouns. This pattern appears constantly in error correction.
Articles and determiners
Practice “a/an/the” with uncountable nouns and institution names—common trap category in banking English.