Test
of English as a Foreign Language or TOEFL is a standardized test of English
language proficiency for non-native English language speakers wishing to enroll
in U.S. universities. The test is accepted by many English-speaking academic
and professional institutions. TOEFL is one of the two major English-language
tests in the world, the other being the IELTS.
TOEFL
is a trademark of ETS (Educational Testing Service), a private non-profit
organization, which designs and administers the tests. The scores are valid for
2 years; then they are no longer reported.
It's
all about time. Things can happen now, in the future or in the past. The tenses
simply show the time of an action or state of being as shown by a verb. The
verb ending is changed (conjugated) to show what time it is referring to. Time
can be split into three periods The Present (what you are doing), The Past
(what you did) and The Future (what you are going to do, or hope / plan to do
).
The
tenses we use to show what time we are talking about are split into the Simple,
Continuous and Perfect tenses. In a sentence there are
four elements. There are : subject, predicate, object, and complement (
adjectives / adverbs ).
For
example : He is reading manga now.
S
P O C
In the TOEFL, questions about tenses only revolve
around the issue of whether the form of V is already in accordance with the context
of the sentence or not, and it was just about the only form of PAST and PRESENT.
example:
·
In the Milkyway Galaxy, the most recently observed supernova
has Appeared in 1604.
Verb 'has Appeared' in the above sentence is not appropriate, given the marker time is past, namely in 1964.
Verb 'has Appeared' in the above sentence is not appropriate, given the marker time is past, namely in 1964.
·
Arizona have a very dry climate.
S P C
Is there anything wrong with the sentence above?
The answer is YES. Let’s take a look, ‘Arizona’ is singular,
so you must use ‘HAS’ not ‘HAVE’.
CORRECT:
Arizona has a very dry climate.
