Grammar Review for the Test of English as a Foreign Language

includes index and biblioraphy

What this book will do for you ...1 How to use this book ...3 What do i need to know about the toefl ...5 How to take the test ...11 Pre -test ...17 Answer key and explanatory answers ...26 Terminology : A review and reference list ...31 Review of grammar and syntax ...41 Nouns ...42 Forming plurals ...43 Forming possessives ...45 Pronouns ...52 Personal pronouns ...52 Reflexive pronouns ...53 RElative pronouns ...54 Demonstrative pronouns ...55 Indefinite pronouns ...55 Pronouns and case ...57 Pronouns and their antecedents ...59 Verbs ...68 Types of verbs ...68 Mood ...69 Voice ...72 Tense ...73 Auxiliary verbs ...84 Verbals ...91 Verbs as complements ....94 Adjectives, adverbs and articles ...110 Confusing pairs ...112 Position in sentences ...114 Comparisons ...115 Articles ...119 Prepositions ...133 Special usage notes ...133 Conjunctions, Interjecyions ,Expletives and appositives ...145 The sentence ..149 Sentence sense ...149 Punctuation between clauses ...150 Shifts ...150 Double clause ...151 Dependent clauses ...151 Word order ...151 Misleading misplacements ...152 Dangling sentence elements ...153 Logic ...153 Subordination ...154 Sentence patterns ...154 Parallelism ...155 Suject -predicate agreement ...156 Pronoun -Antecedent agreement ...159 Direct and indirect discourse ...159 Punctuation, Capitalization and abreviations ...169 Apostrophe ...170 Colon ...170 Comma ...171 Dash ...172 Exclamation point ...173 Hyphen ...173 Parentheses ...173 Period ...174 Question mark ...174 Question marks ...175 Semicolon ...175 Underline ...176 Capitalization ...176 Abbreviation ...177 Review of English usage ...187 Sample test 1 ...211 Answer key and explanatory answers ...221 Sample test 2 ...225 Answer key and explanatory answers ...235 Sample test 3 ...239 Answer key and explanatory answers ...249