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Structure TOEFL 1

This document provides strategies and examples for answering structure questions on tests. It discusses 5 key skills: (1) identifying the subject and verb, (2) recognizing objects of prepositions, (3) identifying appositives, (4) distinguishing present participles as verbs or adjectives, and (5) recognizing past participles. It then provides 10 practice questions testing these skills.

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Structure TOEFL 1

This document provides strategies and examples for answering structure questions on tests. It discusses 5 key skills: (1) identifying the subject and verb, (2) recognizing objects of prepositions, (3) identifying appositives, (4) distinguishing present participles as verbs or adjectives, and (5) recognizing past participles. It then provides 10 practice questions testing these skills.

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STRUCTURE

Strategies for answering the questions on structure:


(1) Study the sentence to recognize the pattern.
(2) Study each answer based on how well it completes the sentence.
(3) Do not look at the options only; check both the sentence and the options.
(4) Never leave any answers blank.

Problems that commonly appear


Skill 1: Subject and verb
A sentence must have at least one subject and one verb therefore, you must check that the
sentence in a question has the subject and the verb. Example:
Traffic was backed up for the miles on the freeway.
S V

Skill 2: Object of Prepositions


A preposition is followed by a noun or pronoun that is called an object of the preposition. If a
word is an object of preposition, it is NOT the subject)
Prepositions: in, on, at, of, with, after, before, between, among, under, beyond,
Example:
With his friend, he found the movie theater.
Obj of prep. S V

Skill 3: Appositive
An appositive is a noun that comes before or after another noun and is generally set off from
the noun with commas. Example:
My friend, George, is attending the lecture.

Skill 4: Present Participles


A present participle is the –ing form of the verb. The present participle can be part of the verb
or as the adjective. It is part of the verb when it is accompanied by some form of the verb be. It
is an adjective when it is not accompanied by some form of the verb be). Example:
The baby is crying. CONTINUOUS
The crying baby is hungry. ADJECTIVE

Skill 5: Past Participles (A past participle ends in –ed but there are also many irregular past
participles. For many verbs, including –ed verbs, the simple past and the past participle are the
same and can be easily confused. The –ed form of the verb can be the simple past, the past
participle of a verb, or an adjective)
Example:
The packages mailed at the post office will arrive Monday.
EXERCISES: Choose the correct answer.
1. The three basic chords in…the tonic, the dominant, and the sub-dominant.
A. functional harmony C. functional harmony are
B. functional harmony is D. functional harmony they are

2. …Hale Telescope, at the Palomar Observatory in southern California, scientists can


photograph objects several billion light years away.
A. The C. They use the
B. With the D. It is the

3. Without the proper card installed inside the computer, …impossible to run a graphical
program.
A. is definitely C. it is
B. because of D. is

4. Each object…Jupiter’s magnetic field is deluged with electrical charges.


A. enters C. entering
B. it enters D. enter

5. As its names suggests, the Prairie Wetlands Resource Center…the protection of wetlands on
the prairies of the Dakotas, Montana, Minnesota, and Nebraska.
A. it focuses C. focusing
B. focuses on D. to focus on

6. One of the largest and most powerful birds of prey in the world,…a six-foot wingspan and
legs and talons roughly the size of a man’s arms and legs.
A. so the harpy has C. with the harpy having
B. the harpy having D. the harpy has

7…loom high above the north and northeastern boundaries of the expanding city of Tucson.
A. The Santa Catalina mountains C. The Santa Catalina mountains are
B. Because the Santa Catalina mountains D. That the Santa Catalina mountains

8. Radioactive…provides a powerful way to measure geologic time.


A. It C. dating
B. dates D. can

9…contained in the chromosomes, and they are thought of as the units of heredity.
A. Genes which are C. When genes
B. Genes are D. Because of genes

10. The benefit…the study is that it provides necessary information to anyone who needs it.
A. of C. that
B. which D. because

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