Review of Language Skills

Review of Language Skills

RE: Grammar Test

Test schedule

Mid-term Exam: Sat, Aug 8, 5.00p.m.-6.30p.m.

Final Exam: Sat, Sept 26, 5.00p.m.-6.30p.m.

Room: LA 502

Test format: 3 parts

Part 1    Choose the incorrect part from the 4 underlined parts (20 sentences/20 marks).

Part 2    Correct the underlined error in each sentence (10 sentences/10 marks).

Part 3    Identify the incorrect part and correct it (5 sentences/10 marks).

Grammar points to cover

Mid-term test

1. All tenses

2. Subject-verb agreement

3. Present and past participial phrases

4. Relative clauses: who/ that, which/ that, where, whose

5. Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, yet, so, for

6. Transitional expressions of cause and effect (subordinating conjunctions and phrases): because, since, as, because of, due to

7. Run-ons and comma splices