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Important Points on Grammatical Assessment…………………………………….24
Language views………………………………………………………………..24
Corpus Linguistics……………………………………………………………..25
Theories of Communication…………………………………………………..25
Challenges in Grammar Assessment………………………………………………..26
Challenge One…………………………………………………………………26
Challenge Two…………………………………………………………………27
Challenge Three……………………………………………………………….28
Challenge Four…………………………………………………………………28
Challenge Five…………………………………………………………………29
Grammar Assessment………………………………………………………………...30
Why assessing grammar?.........................................................................30
Purpose of Assessment……………………………………………………….30
Steps in Constructing a Test………………………………………………….31
Tests formats for Testing/Assessing Grammar…………………………….32
IV. UNDERSTANDING, USING, AND TESTING VERBS…………...…………...35
Present and Past Tenses; Simple and Progressive Tenses……………………...38
Simple Present and Present Progressive…………………………………...38
Simple Present and Present Progressive: Affirmative, Negative, Question
Forms……………………………………………………………………………38
Verbs Not Usually Used in the Progressive (Stative Verbs)………………39
Simple Past Tense…………………………………………………………….40
Simple Past vs. Past Progressive……………………………………………41
Unfulfilled Intentions: was/were going to……………………………………41
Perfect and Perfect Progressive Tenses……………………………………………42
Regular and Irregular Verbs………………………………………………….42
Irregular Verb List……………………………………………………………...42
Present Perfect: Since and For………………………………………………44
Present Perfect: Unspecified Time and Repeated Events……………..…44
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