ISEE instructor Terri K. shows you how to find links in sentence completions to help you solve challenging sentence completion questions.

Many of my students have difficulty with sentence completion in the verbal reasoning section of ISEE. Sentence completions are designed to test your knowledge of word meanings and your understanding of the logical structure of a sentence.

Today, our focus will be on finding links and sentence completions to help you solve challenging sentence completion questions. It’s important to know that links join the parts of a sentence together and they tell you how different clauses relate to each other. Understanding this relationship will help you to determine what goes in the blank or blanks.

Today I’m going to tell you about three common links: contrasting, supporting, and cause/effect. When you see them on sentence completions, make sure that you underline or highlight them. It makes it much easier to solve a sentence completion.

Contrasting Links

Common contrasting links are but, yet, instead of, despite, although, even though, however, nonetheless, not, on the contrary, rather, and yet. It doesn’t hurt to memorize those to be familiar with them.

Cause/Effect Links

Cause and effect means that one thing happens and then something else happens. Some common cause/effect links that you should know are because, consequently, if, therefore, since accordingly, for, in order to, so, and thus. Those are the ones most frequently used.

Supporting Links

Common supporting links that are used in sentence completion sentences are very helpful, so you should pay attention. Some common supporting links are and, thus, as well as, and also. These three punctuation marks are magical, semi-colon, comma, and colon. The words that come after them in a sentence completion question define what should be in the blank.

Now that you’re familiar with common links in sentence completions, you’ll be able to solve challenging sentence completions much more easily.

If you have any questions or you want more in-depth tutoring either online or in person, simply email info@preppedandpolished.com, and we’ll be glad to help you.

Good luck.

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