KEY POINTS FOR THE USE OF ENGLISH PAPER PAPER PART 1. MULTIPLE CHOICE (1pt x 8) 1. PHRASAL VERBS settle down, hold onto, set out, make up, bring out, come up with 2. IDIOMS: under the weather, every now and then. 3. COLLOCATIONS: reach a decision, have fun, 4. PHRASES: the more… the more… the more, in search of, at the heart of, every single + noun 5. SYNONYMS: fee, SYNONYMS: fee, price, cost, charge 6. DISCOURSE MARKERS: rather than, instead of, a wide range/variety of, one another, each other, such as, 7. VERB/ADJECTIVE + PREPOSITION: apart PREPOSITION: apart from, except for, aware of, familiar with, depend on, capable of, acquainted with, consist of, known as,
PART 2. OPEN CLOZE. (1pt x 8) 1. PREPOSITIONS: in, on, at, from, under, below, above, up, down, before, after, into, onto, out, of, etc. 2. MODAL VERBS: can, may, could, might 3. NEGATIVES: not, scarcely, hardly. 4. PHRASAL VEBS: get VEBS: get + _____, take + _____, look + _____, _____, set up. 5. RELATIVE PRONOUNS: how, what, that, which, where, when, whose, why,… 6. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS: himself, yourself… 7. COMPOUND VERBS: make sure, take part in, look like,… 8. CONNECTORS: although, as, as a, like, while, what is more, and, but, moreover, rather than, so that, instead of, as a result, in spite of, despite, if, because of, in order to, for, since. 9. ARTICLES & QUANTIFIERS: the, a, an, one, any, some, much, many, a little, little, a few, few, a lot of, lots… 10. AUXILIARY VERBS: do, does, did, has, have, had, been etc. 11. SUBJECTE “IT”: It + be (am, is, are, was, were), I find it difficult to…
PART 3. WORD FORMATION. (1pt x 8) 1. 2. 3. 4.
STANDARD ORDER: ADV + ADJ + NOUN We can modify the word both sides (know = unknown) PREFIXES: un-, i-, mis-, im-, in-, dis- ,… dis- ,… SUFFIXES: a. ADJ: -y, -ed, -al, -able, -ible, -ic, -ing, -ous, -ive b. NOUN: -ment, -ship, -tion, -sion, -ness, -less, -ence, -ity, -age, -er, -or. c. ADV: -ly d. VERB: -ise/-ize, -ify. 1
5. ADJ NOUN: a. Strong strength b. Wide width c. Long length d. Deep depth e. Grow growth PART 4. KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION. (2pt x 6 = 12pts) 1. FEW / LITTLE / MANY / MUCH / HARDLY / ALMOST 2. PHRASAL VERBS (COME UP WITH, GO ON, ETC) 3. COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES 4. VERB + PREPOSITION 5. ADJECTIVE + PREPOSITION (GOOD AT, APART FROM, ETC) 6. REPORTED SPEECH 7. PASSIVE 8. THE CAUSATIVE (HAVE SOMETHING DONE) 9. CONDITIONALS / WISH & IF ONLY 10. CONFUSING VERBS (PREVENT FROM VS. AVOID TO) 11. INSTEAD OF / RATHER THAN 12. WOULD RATHER VS. WOULD PREFER TO 13. NEVER / EVER + PRESENT PERFECT 14. BECAUSE OF / DUE TO 15. PAST PERFECT VS PAST SIMPLE 16. PRESENT PERFECT VS PAST SIMPLE 17. MODALS PERFECT 18. VERB HABER EN PRESENT PERFECT 19. TOO/ENOUGH 20. SO THAT / IN ORDER TO / SO AS TO 21. AVOID / PREVENT FROM 22. LIKELY / PROBABLY / UNLIKELY 23. HAVE + TROUBLE + ING 24. SO VS. SUCH 25. SHOULD / OUGHT TO 26. DESPITE & IN SPITE OF + ING / NOUN / THE FACT THAT + CLAUSE 27. FIXED EXPRESSIONS (NO MATTER HOW HARD, HAVE NO OBJECTION, ETC)
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