GMAT语法部分的常用词组有哪些呢?澳际留学于近期总结了一批GMAT语法的常用词组，并推荐给广大考生，目前正在积极备战GMAT考试的同学不妨参考一下。

　　25. but not vs rather than

　　Example -

　　Pucci is not a dog but a cat.

　　Pucci is a cat rather than a dog - means Puci has chosen to be a dog rather than cat - sounds terrible

　　I want a cat rather than a dog. - Shows prerence.

　　26. resulting from vs as a result of

　　We should use resulting when we want to describe a noun, e.g.:

　　The fire resulting from the earthquake caused a lot of damage.

　　In this sentence resulting tells us more about the fire.

　　Now let‘s look at how to use as a result of.

　　We should use as a result of when we want to establish a causal relationship between two things, e.g.:

　　As a result of the fire, many people had to stay in temporary shelters.

　　In this sentence, we are saying that the fire caused people to stay in temporary shelters.

　　Example :

　　The cheetah seems to be headed for extinction because, resulting from instensive inbreeding generations ago, the species has so little genetic variation that it is extremely vulnerable to environmental change.

　　A) ....

　　B) because, as a result of intensive inbreeding generations ago,

　　27. compare to vs compare with

　　compare to - use when two things are alike

　　compare with - use when two things are not alike

　　28. The current administration, being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing to increase as a result of deep cuts in the value of the dollars, has formed a group to study ways to sharpen our competitiveness.

　　A. being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing

　　B. worrying over some foreign trade barriers being removed, also over the failure of our exports

　　C. worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and the failure of our exports

　　D. in that they were worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and also about the failure of our exports

　　E. because of its worry concerning the removal of some foreign trade barriers, also concerning the failure of our exports

　　Although C must be the right choice since it uses worried about idiomatically and does not have unnecessary wording, it is hard to understand how PRESENT perfect ("has formed") can be used with PAST simple ("worried about") in one sentence??? They are two different time planes !

　　being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing - is supposed to be a phrase modifying the noun Current administration can be converted to Participle phrase worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and the failure of our exports

　　Balancing a pizza with one hand and having gripped a six-pack carton of soft drinks with another, twenty-three year-old Alan, paused in front of a first floor flat in the colony.

　　A. Balancing a pizza with one hand and having gripped a six-pack carton of soft drinks with another

　　B. Having a balance of a pizza with one hand and gripping a six-pack of carton of soft drinks with the other

　　C. Balancing a pizza with one hand and gripping a pack of six soft drink carton with the other

　　D. Being balanced a pizza with one hand and gripping a six-pack carton of soft drinks with the another

　　E. Having balanced a pizza with one hand and having gripped a six-pack carton of soft drinks with the other

　　A and D - are wrong because of word another

　　B - is wrong because of having a balance of pizza

　　C - is worng because of pack of six soft drink carton vs a six-pack carton of soft drinks

　　The rule to apply here is having + past participle

　　以上对GMAT语法常用词组进行了较为详细的归纳，考生可以据此进行针对性的记忆，并通过阅读及练习熟练掌握GMAT语法的常用词组，从而在短期内提升GMAT语法成绩。 相关链接：

1.实例详解GMAT语法改错技巧(一)

2.简单归纳GMAT语法备考知识点

3.GMAT语法常用词组大盘点(三)

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