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Longman Complete Course for the Toefl Test: Preparation for the CBT and PBT 29

Longman Complete Course for the Toefl Test: Preparation for the CBT and PBT 29. This course gives students the skills, strategies, practice and confidence they need to increase their scores on all sections of the TOEFL Test, including the Test of Written English. This edition reflects the revised TOEFL, first administered in July 1995, and skill coverage has been expanded for all sections. Volume A explains and practices key language points so that students improve their language proficiency as well as their test-taking skills. Clearly defined steps, pre- and post-tests and TOEFL exercises guide students in improving TOEFL strategies and. | WRITTEN EXPRESSION QUESTIONS Paper and Computer 251 Behind the house was the bicycles I wanted. Behind the houses were the bicycle I wanted. In the first example it is easy to think that house is the subject because it comes directly in front of the verb was. House is not the subject however because it is the object of the preposition behind. The subject of the sentence is bicycles and the subject bicycles comes after the verb because of the place expression behind the house. Because the subject bicycles is plural the verb should be changed to the plural were. In the second example the subject bicycle comes after the verb were because of the place expression behind the houses. Because the subject bicycle is singular the verb should be changed to the singular was. The following chart outlines the key information that you should understand about subject verb agreement after inverted verbs SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT AFTER INVERTED VERBS question 1 negative I ----------1 place V S condition no if I comparison I After question words negative expressions place expressions conditions without if and comparisons the verb agrees with the subject which may be after the verb. EXERCISE 22 Each of the following sentences contains an inverted subject and verb. Circle the word or group of words that causes the subject and verb to invert. Find the subject and verb that follow these words. Underline the subject once and the verb twice. Then indicate if the sentences are correct C or incorrect I . C 1. Only once this morning were the letters delivered by the campus mail service. I 2. Around the corner and to the right is the rooms that have been assigned to that program. 3. What in the world is the children trying to do 4. John would be studying the chapters were he able to get hold of the book. 5. This chapter has many more exercises than do the next one. 6. The computer programmer was unaware that there was so many mistakes in the program he had written. 7. Seldom in the history of .