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STUCTURE Skill 12. Agreement after Expressions of Quantity

  Materi: Agreement after Expressions of Quantity Skill 12. Agreement After Expressions of Quantity A particular agreement problem occurs when the subject is an expression of quantity like  all, most , or  some  followed by the preposition  of . In this situation, the subject ( all, most,  or  some ) can be singular or plural, depending on what follows the preposition  of.             Most  (of the  meal *)  was  delicious.             (meal = singular noun)             Most  (of the  meals *)  were  delicious.             (meals = plural noun)             Most  (of the  food *) was delicious.             (food = uncountable noun) In the first example, the subject  most  refers to the singular noun  meal , so the correct verb is therefore the singular verb  was . In the second example, the subject  most  refers to the plural noun  meals , so the correct verb is the plural verb  were . In the third example, the subject  most  refers to the uncountable noun  food , so the correct verb is
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STUCTURE SKILL 11

  Materi: Agreement after Prepositional Phrases Skill 11. Agreement After Prepositional Phrase Subject/verb agreement is simple: if the subject of a sentence is singular, then the verb must be singular; if the subject of the sentence is plural, then the verb must be plural. An -s on a verb usually indicates that a verb is singular, while an -s on a noun usually indicates that the noun is plural. (Do not forget irregular plurals of nouns, such as women, children, and people.)           The  dog   barks  at night.           The  dogs   bark  at night. In the first example, the singular subject  dog  requires a singular verb,  barks . In the second example, the plural subject  dogs  requires a plural verb,  bark .   Sometimes prepositional phrases can come between the subject and the verb on the TOEFL test, and this can cause confusion. If the object of the preposition is singular and the subject is plural, or if the object of the preposition is plural and the subject is singular, there c
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STUCTURE

  Materi: Adverb Clause Connectors Skill 6 Adverb Clause Connectors Sentences with adverb clauses have two basic patterns in English. Study the  clauses and connectors in the following sentences:           He   is  tired because  he   has been working  so hard.          Because  he   has been working  so hard,  he   is          tired. In each of these examples, there are two clauses:  he is tired  and  he has been   work ing so hard . The clause  he has been working  so hard is an adverb clause that is  introduced with the connector  because . In the first example, the connector  because  comes in the middle of the sentence, and no comma (,) is used. In the second  example, the connector  because  comes at the beginning of the sentence. In this  pattern, when the connector comes at the beginning of the sentence, a comma (,)  is required in the middle of the sentence. The following example shows how this sentence pattern could be tested in the  Structure section of the TOEFL test.   Exa
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