| Erreur | Forme incorrecte | Forme correcte | Explication |
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| Confusion Until/By | Submit by Monday until 5pm | Submit by Monday at 5pm | "By" = au plus tard ; "until" = jusqu'a |
| Despite + -ing | Despite he was tired | Despite being tired | Despite est toujours suivi d'un nom ou -ing |
| Preposition after "interested" | interested about finance | interested in finance | "Interested in" est la collocation correcte |
| Confusion Make/Do | make homework | do homework | Do progress, do business ; Make a decision, make an effort |
| Accord adverbe/adjectif | a highly success | a highly successful | Highly modifie un adjectif, pas un nom |
| Confondre "rise" et "raise" | The manager raised | Prices rose / The manager raised prices | Rise = intransitif ; Raise = transitif |
| Piege | Description | Conseil |
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| Mots similaires | "ship" vs "shop", "seat" vs "set" | Focalisez-vous sur le contexte de la phrase entiere |
| Negation manquee | Rater le "not" ou "doesn't" | Soyez particulierement attentif aux auxiliaires negatifs |
| Inferences | La reponse n'est pas dite explicitement | Deduisez a partir du contexte, ne choisissez pas ce qui est dit litteralement |
| Distracteurs lexicaux | Un mot du dialogue apparait dans une mauvaise reponse | La reponse contenant exactement le meme mot est souvent un piege |
| Confusion de lieu | Confondre ou quelque chose se passe et ou on parle | Ecoutez les indices contextuels (noms de lieux, bruits) |
| Temps | Frequence TOEIC | Indice grammatical |
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| Simple Past | Tres frequent | yesterday, last year, in 2023, ago |
| Present Perfect | Tres frequent | since, for, already, yet, just, recently |
| Future with "will" | Frequent | tomorrow, next week, soon, by Friday |
| Past Perfect | Moyen | by the time, before, after, when (+ SP) |
| Passive Voice | Tres frequent | be + past participle (is made, was sent) |