CHAPTER 5 / SENTENCE COMPLETION SKILLS 219
Concept Review 3: Structural Keys
- Name as many structural key words or phrases as you can that indicate a contrast of ideas.
- Name as many words or phrases as you can that indicate a cause-and-effect relationship.
- What do colons and semicolons indicate about the statements they join, and what does a colon do that a
semicolon does not do?
Circle each structural key word, phrase, or punctuation mark in each sentence, and indicate above the word,
phrase, or mark whether it shows support, contrast, cause and effect, or definition.
- Although the words coming from his mouth were refined and deferential, his eyes betrayed a subtle ------ for
his subject. - In order to be newsworthy, a story should be ------; that is, it should not merely warm over old facts the reader
has heard many times before. - The building should be ------ not only for its long-recognized architectural merit but also for its ------ in the
history of Black American theater. - Because the President was used to receiving the support of his advisers, he was ------ when he discovered that
their views on the handling of the crisis were ------ with his own. - Some criminal investigators believe that polygraphs will reliably ------ deception by recording ------
reactions such as slight changes in breathing rate or perspiration rate elicited by a set of questions.