261023 Teps 형성평가 3회차

Summary

The video is a TEPS grammar answer-explanation session covering questions 21–50. The instructor emphasizes identifying the grammatical structure first, then using meaning and context to choose the best option.

Main Ideas and Lessons

• Recognize fixed expressions and word forms

  • “Something of choice” means someone’s preferred or favorite thing; the phrase should remain intact.
  • Distinguish “a picture of him” (a picture depicting him) from “a picture of his” (a picture belonging to him).
  • “Be used to + gerund” means “be accustomed to doing something.” “Be used to + verb” expresses that something is used for a purpose, while “become used to + gerund” describes getting accustomed to something.
  • “As” can indicate a role or capacity; “like” indicates similarity.
  • “Should have + past participle” often expresses a past expectation or regret, while “must have + past participle” expresses a strong conclusion about the past.

• Analyze clauses before choosing conjunctions

  • Count the finite verbs and identify how many clauses and sentences are present.
  • A conjunction connects clauses; a preposition takes a noun or noun phrase, while a conjunctive adverb does not function as a conjunction between clauses in the same way.
  • Use meaning to distinguish relationships such as contrast (“whereas”) and condition (“provided that”).
  • A clause introduced by a conjunction must have the required subject–verb structure.

• Use participles and passive forms correctly

  • In a participial phrase, check whether the related noun performs or receives the action:
    • Use an -ing participle for an active relationship.
    • Use a past participle for a passive relationship.
  • Perfect participles such as “having been + past participle” indicate an earlier action and can express passive meaning.
  • In participial phrases, negative not normally precedes the participle.
  • Reduced passive expressions such as “as depicted …” can omit words when the meaning and structure are clear.

• Check noun countability and agreement

  • “A number of” takes a plural noun and plural verb; “the number of” takes a singular verb.
  • Poem is countable, but poetry, as a literary genre or body of work, is uncountable.
  • Much is used with uncountable nouns; many is used with plural countable nouns.
  • Odd is an adjective meaning unusual; odds can be a noun meaning probability or likelihood.

• Apply common verb patterns

  • After verbs such as insist, suggest, and recommend, a that-clause may use the subjunctive base form: that someone do something.
  • Consider takes a gerund as its object.
  • Avoid takes a gerund, not a to-infinitive.
  • Spend time or money doing something.
  • Prevent A from doing something uses a gerund after from.
  • When a verb takes an object, its gerund or infinitive form still needs the appropriate object.

• Handle relative clauses and sentence structure

  • Whom can follow a preposition; the clause after an object relative pronoun must have the corresponding object gap.
  • A preposition can sometimes be left at the end of a relative clause or moved before the relative pronoun.
  • “Which” after a comma can refer to the whole preceding clause. “That” is not used in this nonrestrictive pattern.
  • With phrasal verbs, a pronoun object normally goes between the verb and particle (pick it up); a noun object can often appear in either position.
  • For comparative forms, use modifiers such as far or much; very does not normally modify a comparative.
  • In structures such as find it + adjective + to-infinitive, it can be a placeholder for a longer infinitive phrase.

Question-by-Question Focus

• 21: Preserve the fixed expression something of choice.
• 22, 36: Distinguish conjunctions, prepositions, and conjunctive adverbs by clause structure and meaning.
• 23: Separate be/become used to + gerund from be used to + infinitive.
• 24: Use participle structure and distinguish countable from uncountable nouns.
• 25: Distinguish depiction from possession in of him versus of his.
• 26–27: Recognize a comparative modifier and the countability of poetry.
• 28: Select the matching correlative conjunction pattern.
• 29–30: Distinguish passive forms from progressive forms and match tense to the time context.
• 31–32: Apply a number of/the number of agreement and the subjunctive after certain reporting verbs.
• 33–35: Use the correct part of speech, a relative pronoun after a preposition, and active/passive participles.
• 37: Check the structure after despite and distinguish a noun from an adjective or participial form.
• 38–40: Apply comparative modifiers, gerund-taking verbs, and the object and word-order requirements of the sentence.
• 41–43: Distinguish role from similarity, use the appropriate duration preposition with the present perfect progressive, and separate past deduction from past expectation.
• 44–48: Apply phrasal-verb pronoun placement, gerund-taking verbs, passive reduced clauses, and prevent … from + -ing.
• 49–50: Check for the missing element in a relative clause and use comma + which to refer to a preceding clause.

Speakers and Sources Featured

• Primary speaker: An unnamed instructor explaining TEPS grammar questions.
• Other voices: Occasional unnamed student interjections or questions, addressed by the instructor.