Primary School English Comprehension Cloze

By: Jessica Loke
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1.    Earlier on, I shared that there are two types of clues that can be used to identify the blanks.

2.    Structural Clues

(a)   Structural clues are about the way a proper sentence must be written.

You can say it is more grammatically based.

Example :

The monkeys ________ the tree to pick the coconuts.

John is  _______ the kite.

(b)   Master these eight types of structural clues to score in Cloze.

  • Nouns
  • Pronouns
  • Verbs
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Prepositions
  • Conjunctions
  • Determiners

3.    Contextual Clues

(a)   Contextual clues tells you what the passage is about.

(b)   You can find these clues around the blank, within the sentence and the paragraphs.

Example :

Janice keeps her hair long, unlike her sister, who has _______ hair.

If you put in the adjective “short”, then you had used contextual clues.

(c)   Master these eight types of contextual clues to score in Cloze.

  • Definition
  • Synonym
  • Contrast
  • Comparison
  • Example
  • List or Series
  • Cause and Effect
  • Inference

 

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Posted on 04/10/2016

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