By TOEFL, Nouns

Mister Micawber wrote:If the test is anything like the ETS tests (TOEFL, etc), Clive, then it tests both grammar and vocabulary. The TOEIC section offers the two types of questions in a roughly 50/50 ratio. It is among the vocabulary set. The section which this question is in consists of 18...

I was helping a friend with her TOEFL exercises, and there are a few sentences I wasn't able to do. Please help me identify:1. The subordinate clause2. The type of subordinate clause (noun, adjective, adverb)3. The function of the subordinate clauseI'll include my thoughts on each sentence as...

Hello Dmitri, If the conversation involved several formats, we might well say 'the PDF format', but normally, since it is a proper name (Adobe Acrobat's 'Portable Document Format'), then we would expect no article. (Not to say that there are no proper nouns that take 'the', since the usage is...

Good work, Khai Minh. 1. No; B is the answer-- 'oil' is a non-specific uncountable noun here. 2. Right. 'Send' is the main verb. 3. Good guess. 'Chain' as an adjective should be singular, and 'restaurants' as the subject should be plural to agree with the verb 'have'. 4. Right. A is a...

Hello Pierre, J7 is correct that in spoken English and informal written English, 'their' has a long and legitimate history as the singular pronoun for unknown sex. The TOEIC sentence sounds completely normal to us. However, for TOEIC, TOEFL and similar language testing purposes, the 'their'...

In today's GetTOEFL daily quiz (Mon Jan 10), the correct answer for the preposition to be filled with following the noun 'doubt' was 'over'. But isn't it correct that you use 'about' also?

Greetings, MM. Let's talk about "myself"--not me, the reflexive pronoun. SMILE The reason I ask is this: in the past few weeks or so I have received several questions dealing with the function and distribution of reflexive pronouns, especially "myself". Although that pronoun functions as a...

Hi all! Ermmmm... maybe you didn't get what they said... "FARMS" IS wrong: the correct noun is FARMERS. FARM: the agricoltural complex ; FARMERS: the men involved in this kind of activity. Sorry if I misunderstood sumthing. Cya, have a nice day

Hi everyone! I made a mistake in a toefl grammar sentence. The average soda can one hundred kilograms. The answer is strong and my book said that It should be used " strength" whereas I think , " capability " should be used in stead of " capable". Therefore, I do not know that there is...