tailieunhanh - Wirting essential_2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'wirting essential_2', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | THE MULTIPLE-CHOICE SECTION You ll probably find at least one multiple-choice question that tests your ability to differentiate between who and whom. Who is the subjective form and whom is the objective. If you re unclear about which to use substitute the words he and him for who or whom. If he is correct you need who both subjective case and if him is correct you need whom both objective case . Here s an example The physical and psychological unrest of the working a class was explored often in the plays of Arthur Miller b for who the subject of the American Dream and its c achievability for ordinary Americans never got stale. d No error. e Who is the object of the preposition for but it is in the subjective case. Correct it by changing it to the objective form whom. If you were unclear about whether this was the error you could have recast the sentence to try he or him in place of who The subject of the American Dream never got stale for he him . Obviously him is correct. Idiom Idioms are expressions peculiar to a particular language whose meanings cannot be discerned by defining them word for word. What downward movement for example happens when one falls in love On what is one perched on when sitting pretty There are thousands of English idioms most of which are very familiar to you even though you may not have known they were idioms. The two most common errors you re likely to encounter are those involving prepositional pairs . take care of according to and the use of infinitives and gerunds . want to meet practice swimming . Since idioms are typically learned through conversation you ll probably be able to hear idiom errors in the Identifying Sentence Errors multiple-choice questions. Listen carefully to each sentence as you read it and identify the error. 1. This year s model is different than last year s. 2. She has difficulty in the Advanced Placement History class. 3. The color choices are typical for that artist. These errors should have sounded .