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Longman publishes a full suite of materials for TOEFL preparation: materials for the paper test, for the computer-based CBT, and for the inlemet-based iBX at both intermediate and advanced levels. Please contact Longman's website | Writing Skill 14 REVIEW GRAMMAR After you have written your essay it is important for you to review the grammar in your response. 4 NOTE For a review of grammar see APPENDIX C. Look at the following sentence from an essay on the effects of television. Television certainly has changing society in very big way. In this sentence the past participle rather than the present participle changing should be used after the helping verb has to correct this error you can change changing to changed. The article a also needs to be added because the countable singular noun way requires an article to correct this error you can change very to a very. The following chart outlines the key information you should remember about reviewing grammar. REVIEWING GRAMMAR GRAMMAR Check for errors in grammar in your response. Be sure to check for errors with nouns and pronouns verbs adjectives and adverbs articles and agreement. 274 WRITING WRITING EXERCISE 14 Correct the errors in grammar in the following passages. The number in parentheses at the end of each paragraph indicates the number of errors in the paragraph. Paragraph 1 In my first semester at the university I was overwhelm by the differences . between university studies and high school studies. In high school I had easily be able to finish the number of work that was assigned and if on certain occasion I did not complete an assignment the teacher quickly tells me to make up the work. The situation in my university classes were not at all like the situation in high school. 6 2 I was tremendously surprising at the volume of work assigned in the university. Unlike high school courses which perhaps covered a chapter in two week university courses regular covered two or three chapters In one week and two or three other chapters in the next week. I have been able to keep up with the workload in high school but it was difficult for me to finish all the reading in mine university classes even though I tried real hard to finish all of them. 7