SUBJECT AND VERB OF TOEFL

SKIL 1 : SUBJECT AND VERB

You know that a sentence in English should have a subject and verb. The most common types of problems that you will encounter in structure question on the TOEFL test are releted to subjects and verbs,perhaps the sentence is missing either the subject or the verb or both,or perhaps the sentence has an extra subject or verb.

            

    Exmple  from the peper and computer TOEFL

                _____was ringing continuously for hours.

(A)   Loudly

(B)   In the morning

(C)   The Phone

(D)   The bells

In this example, you should notice immedilately that there is verb was ringing,but there is no subject . Answer  (C) is the best answer because it is a singular subject that agrees with the singular verb was ringing answer (A) Loudly answer (B) in the mornig,are not subject, so they are not correct. Although answer (D), bells, could be a subject,it is not correct because bells it does agree with the singular verb was ringing.