TOEFL EXERCISE (The Written Expression Questions)

1. Nobody know when the process of glass-making was inveted.

    Correct: Know change knows, nobody is singular.   

2. The languages of the world presents a vast array of structural similarities and differences.

Correct: Presents change present. Not use “s” behind sentence Present. Because there “s”      behind the languages

3. The rise of multinationals have resulted in a great deal of legal ambiguity because multinationals can operate in so many jurisdictions.

     Correct: have change has. Because the rise is singular.

4. All of the east-west interstate highways in the Unites States has even numbers, while north- 

     south interstate highways are odd-numbered.

     Correct: has change have

5. When a massive star in the large Magellanic Cloud explosed in 1987, a wave of neutrinos

     were detected on Earth.

     Correct: Were change was. Because the sentence is past.

6. Every open space in the targeted area that has grass and a few bushes are occupied by the      

    White-crowned sparrow.

     Correct: are change is. Because Every open is plural.

7. Krakatoa is remembered as the volcano that put so much ash into the air that sunsets around

     the world was affected for two years afterward.

     Correct: Put used v2.

8. The term “Yankee” was originally a nickname for people from New England, but now

      Anyone from the United States are referred to as a Yankee.

     Correct:  Are change is. Because there was in the sentence

9. A network of small arteries, mostly sandwiched between the skin and the underlying

     muscles, supply blood to the face and scalp.

     Correct: Supply change supplies. Because singular

10. Mesquite is a small tree in the southwest who can withstand the severest drought.

     Correct: Who change which. Who used people, and which used noun.