⏰ Aim for a TOEIC score of 900+ in 15 minutes a day! The first step to mastering Part 5! Conquering parts of speech questions Day 11
■ Learning Content
・Start of TOEIC Part 5 grammar question preparation
・Frequently appearing parts of speech questions (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)
・Training to identify the correct answer from sentence structure
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■ Learning Points
The most common questions in Part 5 are,
👉 Parts of speech questions
.
In fact, it is said that about 30-40% of TOEIC grammar questions are about parts of speech.
Even if you don't know the meaning of the words,
✔ Whether a noun is needed
✔ Whether a verb is needed
✔ Whether an adjective is needed
✔ Whether an adverb is needed
There are many questions that can be solved if you know this.
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■ What are parts of speech?
Noun
Represents people, things, and matters
Example
company
employee
meeting
information
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Verb
Represents actions and states
Example
work
provide
manage
increase
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Adjective
Describes a noun
Example
important
effective
available
successful
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Adverb
Describes verbs, adjectives, or the entire sentence
Example
quickly
carefully
efficiently
recently
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■ TOEIC frequent patterns
Pattern 1
Article + ( )
“The company announced a new _____.”
A. policy
B. polite
C. politely
D. policies
👉 After the article 'a'
↓
Noun needed
✅ Correct answer: A. policy
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Pattern 2
be-verb + ( )
“The report is _____.”
A. accuracy
B. accurate
C. accurately
D. accurateness
👉 After the be-verb
↓
Adjective needed
✅ Correct answer: B. accurate
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Pattern 3
Modifying a verb
“The manager spoke _____ during the meeting.”
A. confidence
B. confident
C. confidently
D. confide
👉 Modifying 'spoke'
↓
Adverb needed
✅ Correct answer: C. confidently
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■ Learn frequent word endings
Noun
・-tion
・-ment
・-ness
・-ity
Example
information
development
kindness
responsibility
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Adjective
・-able
・-ive
・-ful
・-ous
Example
available
effective
helpful
famous
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Adverb
・-ly
Example
carefully
efficiently
quickly
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■ Practice Question 1
The new software is very _____ and easy to use.
A. effectiveness
B. effectively
C. effective
D. effect
👉 After 'is'
↓
Adjective
✅ Correct answer: C. effective
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■ Practice Question 2
Employees must complete the training _____.
A. requirement
B. require
C. required
D. requirements
👉 Describing 'training'
↓
Adjective
✅ Correct answer: C. required
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■ Practice Question 3
The project was completed _____.
A. success
B. successful
C. successfully
D. succeed
👉 Modifying 'completed'
↓
Adverb
✅ Correct answer: C. successfully
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■ Tips for increasing your score
Those aiming for a TOEIC score of 900 or higher
before looking at the meaning of the words,
👉 look at the parts of speech
as a habit.
The moment you see a question,
if you can judge
“This is an adverb”
“This is an adjective”
your answering speed will increase dramatically.
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■ Today's Summary
✅ The most important thing in Part 5 is parts of speech questions
✅ Distinguish between nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
✅ Make it a habit to look at word endings
✅ Prioritize sentence structure over meaning
Part 5 is not about memorization, but pattern recognition.
First, let's make parts of speech questions a source of points.
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■ Tomorrow's Preview
In Day 12,
👉 we will conquer “verb tense questions”
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We will learn the differences between present, past, and present perfect tenses using frequently appearing TOEIC questions.⸻
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