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Tips For TOEFL Grammar

This document provides tips for the TOEFL exam, including strategies for the different sections. It focuses on grammar structures like present and past participles, coordinate connectors, subject-verb agreement, and parallelism. The main sections are Listening Comprehension, Structure and Written Expression, and Reading Comprehension. Structure and Written Expression contains questions on grammar and identifying incorrect sentence segments over two subsections. Specific grammar tips include identifying verbs and subjects, prepositional phrases, appositives, and participles.

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Tips For TOEFL Grammar

This document provides tips for the TOEFL exam, including strategies for the different sections. It focuses on grammar structures like present and past participles, coordinate connectors, subject-verb agreement, and parallelism. The main sections are Listening Comprehension, Structure and Written Expression, and Reading Comprehension. Structure and Written Expression contains questions on grammar and identifying incorrect sentence segments over two subsections. Specific grammar tips include identifying verbs and subjects, prepositional phrases, appositives, and participles.

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Tips for the Toefl Exam

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General TOEFL
strategies
Use your time wisely.
Get familiar with the instructions before taking
the TOEFL so that you will not have to waste
time reading them.
If you do not know the answer to a question,
guess. There is no penalty for guessing.
Unmarked answers will be counted as wrong.
Mark your answer sheet very carefully.
Do not write in your test booklet.

Grammar structure
strategies
Tips for the TOEFL exam
Structure and Written
Expressions
Time: 25 minutes
40 questions in two subsections
Structure (15 questions). You choose
gramatically correct sentence completions
for sentences with missing parts.
Written Expressions (25 questions). You choose
the incorrect segments in complete
sentences.

P R E S E N T PA R T IC IP LE S
A p re se n t p a rticip le is th e - in g fo rm o f a
ve rb . T h e p re se n t p a rticip le ca n b e ( 1 ) p a rt
o f th e ve rb o r ( 2 ) a n d a d je ctive .

It is p a rt o f th e ve rb w h e n it is a cco m p a n ie d
b y so m e fo rm o f th e ve rb b e . e . g . T h e
w o m a n w a s in trig u in g a g a in st h e r h u sb a n d

It is a n a d je ctive w h e n it is n o t a cco m p a n ie d
b y so m e fo rm o f th e ve rb b e . e . g . th e
in trig u in g w o m a n w a s a m iste ry.
PA S T PA R T IC IP LE

A p a st p a rticip le o fte n e n d s in –e d b u t
th e re a re a lso m a n y irre g u la r p a st
p a rticip le s. ( p la ye d , ta u g h t)

T h e –e d fo rm o f th e ve rb ca n b e ( 1 ) th e
sim p le p a st, ( 2 ) th e p a st p a rticip le o f a
ve rb , o r ( 3 ) a n a d je ctive . e . g . th e fin ish e d
ta sk is o n th e d e sk .
COORDINATE CONNECTORS

Many sentences have more than one


clause (group of words containing
subject and verb). One way to connect
two clauses is to use: AND, BUT, OR, or
SO between the sentences.
When you analize a sentence, first
identify the verb, if there is no verb
in the main sentence, you have to
choose the answer that contains the
correct form of the verb needed.

Once you identify the verb, ask a


wh...question of the verb. This will
locate the subject
Subject-verb agreement.- the subject must agree
with the verb of a sentence in two ways: in
number (singular vs. plural) or in person ( first,
second or third person).
Be aware that some times there are prepositional
phrases (distractors) .

Pronoun-noun agreement.- a pronoun needs to
agree with the noun in term of number and gender.

Parallelism principle requieres that
expressions of similar content and function
should be similar.

Comparison.- make sure to compare the same


things always.
Be sure that the sentence has a subject and a verb

Be careful of objects of prepositions because they


can be mistaken for the subject of the sentence.
The object of the preposition is a noun or a
pronoun that comes after a preposition such as: in,
at, on, of, to, by, behind, etc, to form a
prepositional phrase.

Be careful of appositives. An appositive is a noun


that comes before or after another noun and has
the same meaning. Appositives can be left out the
phrase and it still makes sense.
Be careful of present participles: they can either
be as part of the verb or an adjective

Be careful of past participles

Use coordinate connectors correctly: and, but, so, or,


yet
Parallel structure
Invert the subject and verb with
question words

Invert the subject and verb with


negatives
Subject verb agreement

Subject verb agreement

 
 

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