... that choice and increase your chance of answering
correctly.
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PART 3
STRUCTURE ANDWRITTENEXPRESSION
Structure & WrittenExpression
Structure questions: test ...
correctly into the particular sentence.
Written Expression questions: test the ability to recognize correct
grammar and to detect errors in standard written English. Here the
examinee reads ... the Sentence Completion
questions.
m First pass: answer all the questions that you see the anwer
right away.
m Second pass: go back and try to answer the harder questions.
GUESS if you still...
... the news.
C D
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SECTION TWO: StructureandWrittenExpression (4)
1. The giraffe uses its ... Winston-Salem.
(A) The Kootenay Band Tribe becoming
(B) While The Kootenay Band Tribe becomes
(C) Because The Kootenay Band Tribe became
(D) The Kootenay Band Tribe has become
8. There ...
rights of blacks in America and achieved some notable success in the 1970s.
(A) continued
(B) continuing
(C) and continues
(D) is continuing
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... sentence. However, it usually follows
V and comes before ADJ or other V
s
.
STRUCTURE ANDWRITTEN EXPRESSION
PART A: SENTENCE COMPLETION
There are fifteen questions in part A. Forty percent are ... singular in meaning and take a singular verb.
• Tittle of books and movies, even if plural in form, take singular verbs.
B. Plural subjects
• Subjects joined by and or both and take a plural verb
• ... THE SUBJECT AND VERB
Five types of structures which can function as subjects: noun, pronoun,
gerund (V-ing), infinitive (to V ), noun clause. Every sentence has at least one
subject and one verb....
... parallel structure with coordinate conjunctions
(same structure) + (and, but, or) +(same structure)
(same structure) , (same structure) , (and, but, or), (same structure)
Skill 25: Use Parallel structure ... clues to help you
understand the meaning
4. Choose the answer that the context indicates.
II. THE WRITTENEXPRESSION QUESTIONS
Procedures for the writtenexpression questions
1. First, look at ... in the first
or last line of the passage.
STRUCTURE ANDWRITTEN EXPRESSION
I. STRUCTURES
A. Sentences with one clause
Skill 1: be sure a sentence have S and V
Skill 2: Be careful of objects of...
... physical action, a mental action, or a
state of being?
TOEFL STUDY GUIDE
PART 3
STRUCTURE ANDWRITTENEXPRESSION
Sentence Completion Tips 49 - 50
Sentence Completion Tip 49
Process of ... were", "there
was", "it is", and "it was" are examples of no main
verb or subject and are classed as expressions.
Sentence Completion Tip 50
Strategy:
Locate ... better".
n Locate the main subject and a main verb.
n Remember that "because" usually signals a dependent
clause which also contains a subject and verb but not
the main ones.
If...
... different meanings.
Structure: Error Identification TIP 56
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PART 3
STRUCTURE ANDWRITTENEXPRESSION
Error Identification Tips 51 – 59 (cont)
Structure: Error Identification ... a noun and a pronoun right next to
"He eats little chocolate and few sweets."
l Much before a noun or modifying a verb is rarely used in an affirmative
statement or command. It ... job."
Structure: Error Identification TIP 59
Remember the parts of the sentence that are NOT underlined are
correct as written. You can look at these parts that you know are
correct and use...
... planks and chopsticks in Japan.
(D)
28.
Compared with another spiders, tarantulas actually have very little poison, and some have no
(A) (B) (C)
poison
at all.
(D)
29. Fruit and vegetable ...
16. The Pulitzer Prize has
became the most cherished and sought after annual award for quality
(A) (B)
works in the field of journalism and literature.
(C) (D)
17. Doctors now
recommend ... the Savings and Loans banks in 1982 gave
their powers they needed to
(A) (B)
give loans to almost anyone they wanted.
(C) (D)
22. An environment
favorable for the growth and preservation...
... BABBC BABCC ABCDC
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Structure andWrittenExpression
1. Spain and Portugal’s competition for economic ...
education.
38. The human brain expanded
at first at a rate of one cubic inch every one hundred
thousand
of years, and then began to double.
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24. Indian populations diminished rapidly in the ;late 1900s, through
the spread of
foreign diseases, l
osing resources and wars inflicted upon...
... in spite of
(C) nor
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SECTION TWO: StructureandWrittenExpression (3)
1. Henry David Thoreau’s ... Sunlight during dawn or dusk comes in at a lower angle, and since it cannot escape the dust
and pollution of the atmosphere , the sky turns orange and then red.
(A) as can the daytime sunlight
(B) ... areas human beings lived in milder and more pleasant
places to live, since they were generally located near the equator.
(A) that they were
(B) were
(C) and
(D) and were
11. Until the late...
... manager to die. And suppose I get to be
merchandise manager? He’s a good friend of
mine, and he just built a terrific estate on Long
Island. And he lived there about two months
and sold it, and now he’s ... left aground on a sandbar barely big
enough for our feet. I lost friends and relatives
and stories and familiar comforts and a sense of
continuity between home and outside and any
sense that ... and heard
and smelled and tasted and endured in those
few years before our clay hardens. Offhand
remarks, things glimpsed in passing, jokes and
commonplaces, shop displays and climate and
flickering...