Reading Comp - Sentence Relations

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Reading Comprehension One section of the Reading Comprehension exam asks students to show the relationship between two sentences. This section demands that the student consider how one sentence may lead to or emerge from another sentence. The types of relationships include: Restate Example Cause Effect Contradict Analyze Predict When we think of two people, we often think of them in terms of their relationship to each other: Kim is Joseph’s daughter, but Kim is Karen’s sister. Kim is “Kim”, but her relationship can be seen when she is aligned with another human being. Sentences have relationships the way people have relationships. A sentence might “father” another sentence by being its cause; or a sentence might be the “sister” of another sentence by restating it in other terms. To take this idea further, a paragraph might be thought of as a family of sentences that all relate to each other and are held together by some common bond, or main idea. When assessing sentence relationship, ask these questions: “What connects these two sentences?” “Are these sentences similar?” “Is that similarity factual, or does it contain opinion?” “Are these sentences different?” “What makes them different? Is it the presence of details? Or a contradiction? Or a time shift forward or backward?” DEFINITIONS AND EXAMPLES OF TERMS FOR SENTENCE RELATIONSHIPS Restate: Offers the same idea as shown in a previous sentence, but uses different words and/or phrasing of those words. The sentence will seem similar to another sentence. 1. The college offers several forms of tuition assistance. 2. Students may access an array of financial options as provided by the college. Sentence two restates the idea in sentence one. The structure of sentence two is an inversion of sentence one, but its contents have the same meaning. Example: Shows an

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