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TOEFL Test Written Expression 1

This section of the TOEFL test requires you to identify where an error is present in a given sentence.  A phase or a single word will identify each underlined choice.  You must pick the choice that if corrected with make the sentence grammatically correct.

1.    Before the motorcade reached Main Street, it was moving rather slow.  

2.    Because the highway was poorly marked, I didn’t have no way of knowing which exit to take.

3.    If you are traveling through Pennsylvania, you had ought to visit the Civil War battlefield and the cemetery at Gettysburg.

4.    I inferred from what Steve said that he has excepted my apology.

5.    Over eighty years ago my great-grandfather immigrated from China.  

6.    He talked persuasively for an hour, but his words had no affect.

7.    I have looked everywhere but I can find my camera.  

8.    In biology class we learned about digestion, respiration, circulation, and etc.

9.    The magician on the staff billed himself as a “ master of allusions.”  

10. My brother and I had seen all them tricks many times before.  

TOEFL Test Answer Key Written Expression 1

1. (D) slowly instead of slow
2. (C) didn’t have any instead of didn’t have no
3. (B) ought instead of had ought
4. (D) accepted instead of excepted
5. (C) emigrated instead of immigrated
6. (D) effect instead of affect
7. (C) cannot instead of can
8. (D) etc. instead of and etc.
9. (D) illusions instead of allusions
10. (C) those instead of them