As the Official Guide to the test tells us, each Sentence Correction question asks us to notice and evaluate the correctness of at least one of the following grammar rules:

• Agreement
  
• Diction
  
• Grammatical construction
  
• Idiom
  
• Logical Predication
  
• Parallelism
  
• Rhetorical construction
  
• Verb form

What follows is not for the faint-of-heart.

I have taken these grammatical rules and put all eight of them to work in a GMAT-style sentence — with one important difference.  In order to make it more of a challenge, I have increased the number of answer choices from five to ten.   Naturally, I underlined the entire sentence.  Can you identify not only the correct answer, but what is wrong with each of the answer choices?  Process of elimination may help you even more on this than it can on the real test.

Dissimilar to the depictions of previous Roman emperors, the account of Nero by later historians portray him as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular with the masses than many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome was burning in 64 AD, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

A.  Dissimilar to the depictions of previous Roman emperors, the account of Nero by later historians portray him as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular with the masses than many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome was burning in 64 AD, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

B.  Unlike the depictions of previous Roman emperors, Nero in later historians is portrayed like a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular to the masses than many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome had burned in 64 AD, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

C.  Unlike the depictions of previous Roman emperors, the account of Nero by later historians portrays him as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular with the masses than many rulers before him for his public works and when Rome had burned in 64 AD, Nero immediately begins reconstruction with his own money.

D.  Dissimilar to the depictions of previous Roman emperors, Nero in later historians is portrayed as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular with the masses than many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome had burned in 64 AD, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

E.  Unlike previous Roman emperors, the account of Nero by later historians portrays him as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular with the masses than many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome had burned in 64 AD, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

F.  Dissimilar to previous Roman emperors, the account of Nero by later historians portray him as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular with the masses compared to many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome had burned in 64 AD, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

G.  Unlike the depictions of previous Roman emperors, the account of Nero by later historians portrays him as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular to the masses than many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome had burned in 64 AD, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

H.  Unlike the depictions of previous Roman emperors, the account of Nero by later historians portrays him as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular with the masses compared to many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome had burned in 64 AD, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

I.  Unlike the depictions of previous Roman emperors, the account of Nero by later historians portrays him as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular with the masses than many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome had burned, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

J.  Unlike previous Roman emperors, the account of Nero by later historians portrays him as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular with the masses compared to many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome had burned in 64 AD, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

K.  Unlike the depictions of previous Roman emperors, Nero in later historians is portrayed as a cruel tyrant, even though he was more popular with the masses than many rulers before him for his public works; for example, when Rome was burning in 64 AD, Nero immediately began reconstruction with his own money.

Answer and explanations in Part Two!