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Written Expression Questions
Written Expression Questions
QUESTIONS
THIS PROBLEM REFERS TO IDENTIFYING THE
ERROR IN ENGLISH TEST, THE STRATEGIES ARE:
1. F I R S T L O O K A T T H E U N D E R L I N E D W O R D O F G R O U P S O F
WORDS. YOU WANT TO SEE IF YOU CAN SPOT WHICH OF
THE FOUR ANSWER CHOICES IS NOT CORRECT.
2. I F Y O U H A V E B E E N U N A B L E T O F I N D T H E E R R O R B Y
LOOKING ONLY AT THE FOUR UNDERLINED EXPRESSIONS,
THEN READ THE COMPLETE SENTENCE. OFTEN AN
EXPRESSION IS INCORRECT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING IN
ANOTHER PART OF THE SENTENCE.
3. B E S U R E T O A N S W E R E A C H Q U E S T I O N E V E N I F Y O U A R E
UNSURE OF THE CORRECT RESPONSE.
SUBJECT/VERB AGREEMENT WITH
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE and EXPRESSIONS
OF QUANTITY
THIS PROBLEM IS SO SIMPLE BUT TRICKY
•T h e h a r d e r h e t r i e d , t h e f u r t h e r h e f e l l b e h i n d ( T h e – e r , - e r s t r u c t u r e )
•T h e m o r e t i m e t h e y h a v e t o p l a y , t h e h a p p i e r t h e c h i l d r e n a r e .
PROBLEM WITH THE FORM OF THE VERB
HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE
Whenever you see the verb “have” in any of its forms (have, has having, had)
be sure that the verb that follows it is in the past participle form.
AFTER WILL, WOULD, OR OTHER MODALS, USE THE BASE FORM OF THE
VERB
• The boat will leave at 3:00
• The students must take the exam
•H e r e c e i v e d l i t t l e n o t i c e t h a t t h e b i l l w o u l d h a v e t o b e p a i d i n f u l l
Uncountable can also refer to abstract ideas, such as security,
friendship, hope, happiness
MORE PROBLEMS WITH ADJECTIVES
The previous section, We discussed various problems related to both
adjectives and adverbs. Generally when a word end in-ly in English, it is an
adverb, However, there are a few words ending –ly that are adjectives.
Federal taxes are yearly taxes which must be paid every April
PREDICATE ADJECTIVES
Certain adjectives appear only in the predicate of the sentence; that is,
they appear after a linking verb such as be, and they cannot appear
directly in front of the nouns that they describe