English Language Writing Skills

By Danso Kwasi Nti Samuel (DAS). Study the complete course source, examine every model and practise alongside Professor Jarvis.

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Contents of comprehension

   •   Content questions

   •   Inference or views of writer/logical conclusion question

   •   Words, meaning, and expressional meaning.

Content questions

These are the parts of the question where the answers are straightforwardly located in the

passage. You just read and pick the answer to the question of the passage.

Logical questions/inference

These types of questions involve students drawing conclusions depending on the

circumstances of the passage. Some are characters of writers or people in the passage. You

cannot find the answer from the passage, but we use the circumstances surrounding the

passage to conclude on the answer, be it a character or view on anything. If the question

demands characters or behaviour or attitude on something, we normally use friendly,

unfriendly, harsh, good, bad, etc.

Words and meaning

Provide words that can be adequately fixed in the passage. Make sure it is having the same

meaning, tense, and part of speech is in terms of a noun, adjective, adverb, etc. Also, any

word or phrase to be used to replace any expression in the passage should adequately fix the

passage.

Always use the words in the place you have to replace in the passage before you choose the

word to be an answer.