Reading & WritingChapter 5: Text Structure and Purpose
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Official SAT mapping?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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Craft and Structure → Text Structure and Purpose.
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: What is this topic's core focus?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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Identifying the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Content vs function?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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Content says what information appears; function explains what that information does in the text.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Best working strategy?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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whole purpose → sentence content → before/after relationship → function
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Primary trap?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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paraphrasing the sentence instead of naming its role
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: How does the target relate to the whole?
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the sentence can introduce, support, clarify, qualify, contrast, explain, or establish significance
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Why read before the target?
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To identify the point or expectation the target will develop, support, complicate, or revise.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Why read after the target?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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The later sentence often interprets the target or reveals why it matters.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Main vs secondary function?
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Choose the role that best explains the target's contribution to the passage, not a merely incidental effect.
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Unsupported-purpose warning?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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Do not infer a hidden motive, audience reaction, or intention not established by the text.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Content-paraphrase warning?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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Repeating what a target says is not enough; state its rhetorical relationship.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Wrong-target warning?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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Check that the option describes the referenced portion rather than an adjacent sentence.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: One-text boundary?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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Chapter 5 normally analyzes one text; relationships between two texts belong to Cross-Text Connections.
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Transition boundary?
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Transition words can reveal structure, but choosing a transition belongs to the Transitions skill.
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Function of a Sentence: 5-2: Final self-check?
💡Connect the answer to the contribution one full sentence makes to the text as a whole.
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Does the answer state the correct rhetorical action, content target, scope, order, and degree of certainty?
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Function of a Sentence: What comes before deciding a sentence's function?
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Determine what the passage as a whole is doing.
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Function of a Sentence: Why is paraphrase insufficient?
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It states what the sentence says, not what role that information plays.
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Function of a Sentence: A sentence after a broad claim gives one case. Likely function?
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To illustrate or substantiate the claim, depending on how the passage uses the case.
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Function of a Sentence: A sentence begins ‘however’ and narrows a prior claim. Function?
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It qualifies or limits the prior claim.
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Function of a Sentence: Right function, wrong target trap?
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The option accurately describes a different sentence's role.
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