Sunday, August 18, 2013
ADVANCED STRATEGY : Dissecting Long Sentences for Reading Comprehension and TEXT Completion
First of all I want to mention that this article is intended for non-native speaker, and native speaker might find this article funny, even ludicrous. So if you are native speaker, ignore this article. Long sentence is not unfamiliar thing for who are taking gre, gmat, lsat.
Long sentences are much time consuming, but if read strategically, it is quite easy. Today, we are going to dissect long sentences along with specific example, and off course, with a practice text completion. To comprehend sentence faster, always emphasize the main gist of the sentence.
Long sentences are typically of four parts-
- Main part,
- Lead part,
- Elaboration part,
- Run-on part
Main part: This is thing you should take care most, and this will give you the main gist of the sentence.
Lead part: This part generally introduces or leads main part of the sentence.
Elaborate part: This part generally elaborates a word or phrases in the sentence.
Run-on part/Add on part: This part adds new information or run to continue the sentence.
Now look over this sentence:
In this endeavor historiographers examining the history of the Pacific Coast of the United States have traditionally depended on the record left by European American explorers of the nineteenth century who, as commissioned agents of the United States government, were instructed to report thoroughly their findings in writing.
FINAL WORDS: SO ALWAYS EMPHASIZE MAIN PARTS TO GET THE GIST OF THE SENTENCES AND SIMPLIFY IT AS FAR YOU CAN.
PRACTICE: TEXT COMPLETION
The movie assumes what so many people seem to believe about the real-life CEO, Mr. Xane: that his well-known stupidity, his storied capacity to humiliate and to alienate, is, far from being a ____(i)_______, a crucial aspect of his genius. The same _____(ii)_______ standards that Xane applies to consumer electronics, he applies to fellow humans.
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