TOEFL/TOEIC PRACTICE

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TOEFL/TOEIC PRACTICE

• Find the mistake according to grammatical area

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Tenses structure and time expressions

• I am reading the newspaper every day.
• I have read the article now.
• They are finally owning a computer.
• When I was seeing the robbery, I called 911.
• John is in the U.S. for two years now.
• Since he has started college, he is happy.

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Passive / Active Voice

• Such a terrorist attack had never been happened
  before in the U.S.
• Afghanistan locates in the Central Asia.
• This semester, the lecture has being attended by
  a lot of foreign students.
• The teacher is been asking a lot of questions.

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Verb Forms-gerund vs infinitive vs simple form

• No one who really enjoys travel by ship can feel
  seasick.
• Have you ever wanted win the lottery?
• The team hopes winning the championship.
• If you cannot avoid to drive in the rain, at
  least be careful.

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Verb Forms-gerund vs infinitive vs simple form

• The city has finally decided support the
  construction of the new park.
• John was considering learning speaking a third
  language to get a higher salary.
• He had expected getting a good salary with just
  two languages, but the director said he would
  need three.

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Verb Forms causal verbs

• The teacher had the students to use pencil
  instead of pen for the test.
• The general manager wanted all the equipment
  check before the start of production.
• Mary asked her brother to help her moving the
  furniture.
• Let me to give you a hand with that.

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Verbal Forms - subjunctive

• It is essential that the verb forms are learned
  before taking the TOEFL.
• As necessary as it was that he felt committed to
  the job, he could just not feel that way.
• The editor urges that the article is true before
  it can be published.
• We propose that she enters the club.

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Phrasal verbs

• The news of the death of her father really broke
  down her.
• Since he gave it little maintenance, he broke
  down the car.
• His wife was the first to notice that the car was
  out off order.
• The class discussed about the amount of pollution
  in the city.

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Conditionals

• If I had known you were coming, I would waited.
• He could travel if he would have money.
• When he will get a raise next year, he plans to
  buy a new car.
• If they could travel more, they would have felt
  more relaxed.

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Countable vs Uncountable

• The teacher gave me an advice.
• All I had were a couple of beers.
• We decided to order a coffee for each of us.
• The degree of moistures in the different parts of
  the city was radically different.
• He is not really fond of those fruits.

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Noun modifiers

• I am not sure I like that one, but if there is
  not other one, I would not mind taking it.
• Of his three daughters, one lives in United
  States, other lives in Canada, and the another
  one lives here in Mexico.
• I have found that this professors are truly
  helpful.

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Noun modifiers

• Considering all the rain we have had, it is good
  to have had two straight days of beautifuls
  sunsets.
• The extremely nature of the sport is what makes
  it so risky.
• I am not interested in those kind of books. Do
  you have any differents ones?

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Articles

• Economy is worsening.
• Americans value the freedom.
• Freedom of all Americans is being threatened.
• Luggage in the cars was stolen.
• The luggage that is made of leather is expensive.

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Articles (cont.)

• The cars from Germany are expensive.
• The food is necessary for survival.
• Food we had at that restaurant was excellent.
• I have never heard of scientist not interested in
  looking for answers to the questions of life.

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Articles (cont.)

• Coriander appears to be a herb that is used the
  world over.
• Its not good idea to place metallic objects in
  microwave ovens.
• If you put in an hermetically-sealed container,
  there could be problem also.

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Participials verbals

• The lecture was so bored that I felt frustrating.
• The limiting contract made many workers unhappy.
• After learn a second language, the third is quite
  easily learned.
• Stop terrorism has been hard for most countries.

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Participials (cont.)

• Crossed the street, the man was hit by a
  motorcycle he did not notice.
• Having work, laborers feel pleasing with their
  job.
• Having work all through the night, the rescue
  crew finally went home at dawn.
• Frustrated as it may seem, English grammar is in
  reality easy to learn.

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Clause vs Phrase

• Americans were not aware of terrorists will use
  planes as weapons.
• Everyone asked himself why the terrorists do
  this.
• The problem the world continues to have it is the
  threat of terrorism.
• The students studied for hours passed the test.

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Clause vs Phrase (cont.)

• The man which we met was an extremely interesting
  person.
• The event we told you was last night, not
  tonight.
• He is too confused that he cannot finish the
  test.
• The students were amazed because of the exam was
  so easy.
• Although he did not study, he passed the test,
  however.

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Word order

• Rarely the workers had endured such difficult
  conditions.
• Not only the weather was bad, but also the food
  was insufficient.
• Only once before the workers had had such a bad
  time.
• The CEO did not know what could he tell them
  about the reason for this.

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Word order (cont.)

• Had the workers considered this, they would have
  not taken the job.
• They nowadays feel that the experience helped
  them develop.
• The CEO now stays alert to see that the situation
  does not anymore repeat itself.
• All the workers continue to work still there.

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It vs There

• On the evening of September 11, it was a vigil
  for the victims of the WTC.
• We are five of us on the committee to find the
  solution to the problem.
• Dont worry. Is really no problem for me.
• Was an amazing activity that the teacher planned
  for the children.

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Similar words

• The professor adviced the students on how best to
  study for the test.
• He decided to lend a small amount of money from
  the bank.
• The counsel of directors has finally reached a
  decision.
• In spite of the recession, the manufacturer rose
  the prices of his products.

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Similar words

• If you are thinking about buying a new car, you
  should get a car as mine
• The job market was so reduced he had to get a
  position like a clerk.
• The figures on that balance sheet represent
  expenses as gas and meals.
• This is harder that I imagined it would be.

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Similar words

• This hotel caters to families with a large amount
  of children.
• The desert that chef prepared was the overall
  winner in the competition.
• Was the information clear or would you like me to
  explain it farther?
• Everyone accept the director felt that the
  measure was unfair.

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Prepositions

• I could barely see the new director because he
  was standing between several people.
• Due to the rain, we decided to wait for you into
  the coffee shop.
• Beside the students, the teacher also noticed the
  discrepancy in the talk.
• The merger will be announced in the end of the
  meeting.