TOEFL EXERCISES 3

1. After John eaten dinner, he wrote  several letters and went to bed.

         A          B    C D

Answer: A. eaten

it should be: ate

Reason: because this sentence is simple past tense, "wrote" and "went" use past tense/V2 and "eaten" is past participle/V3

4. Please give me  a few  coffee and some donuts  if you have any left.

A        B         C D

    Answer: A. a few

    It should be: a little/some

    Reason: because coffee is uncountable. "A few" uses for countable noun

    

10. John went to the mountains on his vacation, and  we   had gone  too.

A        B C        D

      Answer: d. had gone

      It should be: went

      Reason: because this sentence is use "and" so it must be parallel use the same tense that is simple past tense.

TOEFL EXERCISES 2

Choose the INCORRECT answer, then give the CORRECTION and EXPLANATION !

1. Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego, Detroit, and the Bronx have become biological

A

parks where animals roams free and people watch from across a moat.

B C D

Answer: C. roams free
       It should be “roam free”
Reason: because the subject is ‘animals’ in plural

2. George has not completed the assignment yet, and Maria hasn’t neither

   A B     C D

Answer: D. hasn’t neither
it should be “has neither”
Reason: because neither means ‘not either’

3. Hanny enjoyed to be able to meet several Congress members during her vacation.
   

      A B       C           D

Answer: A. to be
it should be “being”
Reason: Because enjoyed is one of the verbs which is followed by a gerund

4. No one would have attended the lecture if you told the truth about 
   

      A B C

the guest speaker.

D

Answer: B. told
It should be “had told”
Reason: This is a past unreal condition. Would have attended. . . had told.

5. Marie has registered for both the afternoon anthropology class as well as
   

     A       B

the evening sociology lecture.

C D

Answer: B. as well as
It should be “and”
Reason: because Both…… and

6. Compact discs are affected neither by scratching and by dust.
   

   A     B    C  D

   Answer: D. and

It should be “nor”
Reason: because neither….. nor……

7. Plastics used to make textiles can be drawn into fine threads, then woven or knit

A         B         C         D

into fabrics.

Answer: D. knit
It should be “knitted”
Reason: because it uses pas participle

8. Henry David Thoreau stressed the importance in individuality and of living 
   

    A B

in harmony with nature.

  C D

Answer: A. the importance in
It should be “the importance of”
Reason: because “of” is usually followed by noun.

9. The coach was depending for his team to win the game so that they would have a 
   

   A B   C

chance to play in the Super Bowl.

         D

Answer: A. depending for
it should be “depending on”
Reason: because depending followed by on

10. According to Freud, mental life is characterized by internal conflicts who are largely

 A B             C    D

unconscious.

Answer: C. who
it should be “which”
Reason: because the subject is mental life so it is not who but which or that