Focused practice
Verbal ability
Build confidence with grammar, vocabulary, and clear meaning.
Make time for a small step
Answer at your own pace, skip a question when needed, and review every explanation at the end. Answers save when you finish the session.
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A useful way to practise verbal ability
Read the whole sentence before examining individual answer choices. Grammar questions depend on sentence structure; vocabulary questions depend on meaning and context. Aim to explain the choice rather than memorize a letter.
- Find the subject and verb, and check whether they agree in the stated register.
- For vocabulary, substitute the candidate meaning into the sentence and check whether the message stays clear.
- When reviewing a mistake, write one new sentence using the corrected pattern or word.
A worked example
In the sentence ‘The list of topics is ready’, the subject is ‘list’, not ‘topics’. The phrase ‘of topics’ describes the list, so the singular verb ‘is’ agrees with the singular subject.