TOEFL General 5 Flashcards
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She _____ to the market every Saturday morning.
Answer: goes
With a third-person singular subject (she), the simple present tense requires adding -s to the base verb: 'goes'.
They have lived in this town _____ ten years.
Answer: for
'For' is used with the present perfect tense to indicate a duration of time, while 'since' is used with a specific point in time.
He spoke so quietly that we could _____ hear him.
Answer: hardly
'Hardly' is an adverb meaning 'almost not,' which correctly modifies the verb 'hear.' 'Hard' is an adjective or a different adverb meaning with great effort.
This is the book _____ I told you about.
Answer: which
'Which' is the correct relative pronoun when referring to a thing (book). 'Who' and 'whom' are used for people, and 'what' cannot introduce a relative clause.
By the time we arrived, the film _____.
Answer: had already started
The past perfect tense ('had already started') is used to describe an action completed before another past action ('arrived').
Would you mind _____ the window? It's cold outside.
Answer: closing
After 'mind,' a gerund (-ing form) is required. 'Would you mind closing' is the grammatically correct construction.