McGraw-Hill Education GRE 2019

Text Completion

Study this chapter to learn about:

■ Single-blank Text Completion questions

■ Double- and triple-blank Text Completion questions

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ext Completion questions consist of a one-to-five-sentence passage with

one to three blanks. You are asked to use logic and the context of the

sentence to identify the best word for each blank. There is no partial

credit for Text Completion questions. For Text Completion questions

with one blank, there will be five choices. For Text Completion questions with two

to three blanks, there will be three choices for each blank

Single-Blank Text Completion Questions

Single-blank Text Completion questions will always have five choices. Your task

is to use the context of the sentence to select the choice that best fits in the blank.

When most people do Text Completion questions, they take the word in each

choice and insert it back into the sentence. Though this approach will sometimes

lead to the right answer, the better method is to predict the answer and then see

which choice matches your prediction.

How will you predict the answer? By identifying the contextual clues.

Contextual clues are words or phrases that link elements of a sentence. These clues

help provide a logical structure for understanding the relationship between the

sentence’s different components. Though the terminology might seem foreign, you

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