TOEFL GRAMMAR STRUCTURE

    Test of English as a Foreign Language TOEFL is abbreviated English proficiency exam (American accent) are required to enroll into college (college) or university in the United States or other countries in the world. This exam is required for applicants whose native language or the speaker is not English. TOEFL exam is organized by the office of ETS (Educational Testing Service) in the United States for all test takers around the world.

    TOEFL English language test types are generally required for college entrance requirements at most universities in the United States and Canada both for the undergraduate program (S-1) and graduate (S-2 or S-3)​​. TOEFL test results are also used as a material consideration regarding English language proficiency of the students who apply to universities in other countries, including universities in Europe and Australia. In general, the TOEFL test is more oriented to American English, and a little different from the types of IELTS test-oriented to British English. Not like IELTS, TOEFL test is generally not have the individual part interview test.

The test usually takes about three hours and is organized into 4 parts, namely:

• listening comprehension,

• grammar structure and written expression,

• reading comprehension, and passage

• writing.

There are a few things you can do to prepare for the TOEFL Structure.

1. Understanding the Basic Sentence Structure.

2. Understanding Conjunctions and Linking Words, Coordinators, and Subordinators.

3. Understanding Subject-Verb Agreement and Passive Voice.

4. Understanding Reduced Relative Clauses and Reduced adverbial clause.

5. Understanding the participle phrase and phrase Introduction.

6. Understanding Parellelism and inversion.

7. Understanding Clauses Noun and Embedded Questions.

8. Understanding Reports inserts, gerunds, and infinitives.

9. Understanding passive and stative preposition.

 Contoh test structure grammer pada TOEFL:

From the marked areas A, B, C and D, identify the one that is wrong, correct it.

1. (A) Their most favorite hotel is the Hotel Regent. (B) It is near the beach and (C) is a very cozy hotel. It is (D) not too expensive, too.

2. I like (A) these kind (B) of hotels too. I don’t (C) go for the big, noisy and (D) expensive sort.

3. The Amelia Hotel (A) is good as the Radan Hotel, (B) in fact. Actually, I (C) would rather go to the Amelia. (D) It’s closer to the town.

4. (A) He prefers the (B) Radan Hotel because (C) he feels the service (D) is more better.

5. The Weather Bureau (A) is announced that the rain (B) will continue for (C) another 36 hours. People (D) are advised to stay indoors.

6. Visibility (A) on the roads (B) are very poor. Thus, drivers are advised (C) to be careful, especially when (D) driving at night.

7. She was (A) kind enough (B) to give me (C) a lot of advices (D) about how to pass the driving test.

8. (A) I told him, “(B) I have not (C) been told (D) these news”

9. (A) The man was hung as punishment (B) for murdering (C) his five children (D) and his wife.

10. (A) I made him (B) to confess that (C) he copied your answer (D) during the test.

Answers 1. A 2. A 3. A 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. C 8. D 9. A 10. B

Error identification – Extra practice exercises. Decide which part of the sentence is grammatically incorrect. Then look at the answers below.

I enjoyed study geography at school and now I’ve enrolled at the Economics Faculty.

I used to be keen of all scientific subjects but now I would prefer to study art.

I want meet your sister when she comes to see you – she sounds very nice.

My friends tell the English exam is quite difficult but I’m not worried.

The tickets, which are extremely good value, can be buy from large supermarkets.

The number of people which asked for the discount was low but grew during the summer period.

He wanted always to be a doctor and after doing medicine he now works in a hospital.

The informations they gave us was not very helpful so I consulted the website instead.

There isn’t many time, do you think we should get a taxi to the exhibition centre?

He graduated in languages in June and is now thinking of do a second degree in psychology.

The policeman showed us an identikit picture of the man who steal the car.

How long does it take to get the station on foot from your house

I was so angry that I took the watch broken to the jewellers to get my money back.

He rang me this morning for tell me that he had passed his driving test.

I won’t be able to go on holiday this year unless I will get a part-time job.

It was so nice day that they decided to have a picnic in the field.

I haven’t never seen anybody who rides a horse so well before.

My boyfriend always takes me to see horror films, but I don’t like very much.

We went to Guatemala last year so we were tired of the usual beach holiday.

I’ve gone to Marbella. I remember it well. A busy town with a nice modern promenade and picturesque ‘piazze’.

 ANSWERS WITH EXPLANATIONS

I enjoyed studying (‘enjoy’ + ing)

keen on (keen + on = essere appassionato di)

want to (‘want’+ to + verb)

tell me (‘tell’ + person (me/you/him/her etc); nb. ‘say’non è seguito dalla persona)

can be bought (to be + past participle = passive)

who (relative pronoun ‘who’ = people)

always wanted (frequency adverb goes before the main verb)

the informations (information = uncountable noun)

much time (‘much’ with uncountable nouns, ‘many’ with countable nouns)

doing (‘ing’after a preposition)

stole (past tense of steal = steal stole stolen)

get to (preposition necessary; get to /go to /come to the station, BUT. arrive at/ reach the station)

broken watch (adjective before noun)

to tell me (to+base form = per/a scopo di)

unless I will get (1° conditional = if/unless/when + present)

such a (such a + noun; so + adjective)

I haven’t never (double negative)

l don’t like them (‘like’ + direct object)

as (as = siccome; so = quindi)

I’ve been to Madrid (use ‘been’ not ‘gone’ se sei stato e tornato)

source: 

http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/toefl_grammar.html

http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOEFL

http://kursusinggris.wordpress.com/keahlian-dasar-bahasa-inggris/

http://kursusinggris.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/tes-acept-error-identification-part-iii-grammar-and-structure/