TOEFL iBT Grammar

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TOEFL Integrated Speaking and Writing: Simple Present or Present Progressive?

Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam!” www.bettertoeflscores.com In an answer to one of this Online TOEFL students, Michael Buckhoff, founder of Better TOEFL Scores, discusses 1) the uses of the simple present and the present progressive tenses. 2) why the simple present tense is a more appropriate choice within the …

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TOEFL iBT Grammar: Choosing an Appropriate Point of View

Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam” Listen to this post: pronounshifts Huge problems with point of view shifts in my TOEFL and in my college composition classes warrant a thorough discussion of why consciously choosing an appropriate point of view BEFORE you start writing or speaking will dramatically reduce the …

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TOEFL iBT Grammar: Parallellism and Speaking and Writing Tasks

Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam!”  Listen to this post: toeflibtgrammarparallel-structures Part of being a good writer and speaker of English is an attempt to make language as even and as balanced as possible. This attempt to keep language balanced is called parallel structure. The following sentence is not parallel: …

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TOEFL Integrated Speaking and Writing: Simple Present or Present Progressive?

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TOEFL iBT Grammar: Compound Sentences

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TOEFL iBT Pronunciation: Avoiding Irregular Word Stress Shifts with Compound Adverbs, Two Word Verbs, Two-Syllable Nouns and Verbs, Verbs with Prefixes, and Abbreviations and Symbols

Listen to this post: word_stress_part_two_and_toefl_ibt_prounuciation To continue to improve your pronunciation of word stress, you will need to become familiar with word stress patterns of various word combinations. For example, how would you pronounce the following words: downwind, watch over, underestimate, USA, and autistic? What about conduct when used as a verb or when it …

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Subject-Verb Agreement and TOEFL iBT Speaking and Writing

Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam!” “Give me a power-packed TOEFL lesson!” Your grammar will be evaluated on both TOEFL iBT speaking and writing sections. Therefore, you need to create grammatical sentence structures. One area of grammar about which you should be concerned is subject-verb agreement. Having correct subject-verb agreement …

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