tailieunhanh - Ace the toefl essay part 17

Fortunately, they do not take much time, and employing them gives you the advantage needed to earn that outstanding score on the essay section of the TOEFL. Understand this: every essay question is worded in such a way that it requires a specific manner of response. | 150 Ace the TOEFL Essay TWE Grammar Note SV IO DO I told the man sitting at the bus stop that I would be right back. If we are speaking to people use the following patterns with tell told and say said Tell Told S-tell told-IO-DO Do not use the word to. Say Said S-say said to IO DO. Say Said S-say said DO to IO. SV DO IO. I handed the big case of beautiful Afghan flowers to the little boy. S V DO IO The big man pushed the handful of money toward the lady in the box. S V DO IO The fat old lazy homeless man who was at the station gave a letter to me. Recall that we said the best way to learn grammar and to learn to write is to look at the position of something in the text. By finding the subject and the verb of the sentence you enable yourself to notice constructions in the structure that are not really necessary. Earlier we learned that transitions take us from one idea to the next from sentence to sentence and from paragraph to paragraph there are always words in a sentence that do the same thing. For example to see two nouns next to each other may mean that one is the start of a phrase or clause that renames the phrase or clause before it. Also we know that most sentences have a subject and a verb so to see two sets of verb phrases in a sentence means that there are probably two clauses because most clauses have a subject and a verb. 151 Syntax and Grammar Complements Subject S V SC The man the one who was being chief officer for the day is always a real headache. SV SC I am the man writing the letters for all the students. S V SC She seems to be the one who started all of the problems. S V SC She appeared tired worn-out and ready to go home. Direct Object S aux V DO O comp. He was crowned Mr. Olympia the possessor of the most symmetrical body in the world. S V DO O comp OC They made him the most feared leader in the whole Western world. S V DO OC I slugged the man the one being the most obnoxious pest at the party. S V DO OC I made her my wife the partner who .