Basic Concepts
In a nutshell: Practice filling in blanks and selecting words to strengthen your grasp of sentence structure and meaning.
## What Are These Questions?
Text Completion asks you to fill in blanks in passages, while Sentence Equivalence requires you to pick two words that fit a sentence and give it the same meaning.
## Strategies
- **Read the sentence carefully** before looking at answer choices.
- **Look for clue words** that signal meaning (e.g., however, although).
- **Eliminate choices** that don’t make sense in context.
- **Check both choices** for Sentence Equivalence to ensure they create the same sentence meaning.
## Real-Life Skills
These skills help with precise communication and understanding nuanced meaning in professional emails, reports, and academic writing.
Examples
- Choosing 'ephemeral' and 'transient' to complete a sentence about something short-lived.
- Finding the word 'nevertheless' as a clue to select the right answer for a text completion.