Reading & WritingChapter 2: Inferences
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Primary Inferences stem
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Which choice most logically completes the text?
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Blank's logical role
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The missing language may conclude, explain, predict, or qualify the setup.
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Cover-and-predict
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Hide the options and draft the relationship the blank must express.
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Whole-passage rule
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The completion must follow from the full setup, not only the nearest sentence.
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Insert-and-read
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Place each contender in the blank and verify the completed argument.
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Logical vs grammatical fit
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All options may be grammatical; only one is earned by the evidence.
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Pronoun fit
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The completion's pronouns must refer clearly to entities established in the passage.
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Comparison fit
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Retain the same baseline and direction of comparison used before the blank.
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Conclusion signal
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Thus, therefore, and these findings suggest call for an inference rather than a new fact.
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Qualification signal
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However and nevertheless may require a completion that limits an expectation.
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Prediction role
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A repeated pattern can support a cautious prediction under the same condition.
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Restatement trap
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The option repeats a premise but never performs the blank's concluding job.
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New-topic trap
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The option is relevant to the subject but introduces an issue the setup never develops.
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Smooth-sounding trap
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Fluent prose can conceal an unsupported relationship.
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Reference shift
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The option silently changes the group, object, or time being discussed.
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Degree shift
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May becomes must, or a tendency becomes a guarantee.
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Five-word prediction
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Compress the needed relation before matching it to fuller answer wording.
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Nearest-sentence limit
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Use the final sentence as a clue, not as your entire evidence base.
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Complete-argument test
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After insertion, identify the premises and the conclusion in the finished text.
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Final completion check
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Does this sentence perform the required role with no new assumption?
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