Tham khảo tài liệu 'determining meaning from context 4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CHAPTER 3 Structure Grammar and Style As you can imagine you will do a great deal of writing in college. To do well in an American school you will need to write in clear grammatically correct English. In this chapter you will learn exactly what the structure section of the TOEFL exam is like. You will also review and practice basic grammatical rules and patterns so you can write correctly and perform well on the exam. WHEN WE ARE communicating with others speaking has several advantages over writing. For one thing speaking enables dialogue. If we don t understand what the speaker is saying we can ask the speaker to repeat rephrase or clarify his or her ideas. For another when we speak we have much more freedom to play with grammar and stylistic conventions. We can use slang clip off endings of words and state incomplete or run-on thoughts. Because we are speaking often formulating our thoughts as we go it is natural and even acceptable to make occasional grammatical mistakes. And when we do we have the chance to correct ourselves before we continue. Not so with writing. Writing necessarily distances us from our audience and we cannot correct ourselves as we go along or backtrack if our reader doesn t understand what we have written. When we write therefore we need to be clear and correct from the start. Otherwise our readers may not be able to understand our message. Because you will do an enormous amount of writing in college including lab reports research papers and essays admissions officers need to know that you can communicate clearly and correctly in written English. That s why Section II of the TOEFL exam tests your knowledge of English grammar and style. 51 STRUCTURE GRAMMAR AND STYLE The TOEFL Exam Structure Section What to Expect Section II Structure does not require you to actually write grammatically and stylistically correct sentences. You will have that opportunity in Section IV Writing or the Test of Written English TWE if you take the paper-based .
