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The sat critical reading section 1 5658 SAT2006[03](fin).qx 11/21/05 6:42 PM Page 42 – THE SAT CRITICAL READING SECTION – Although the tiger is primarily a solitary beast, its you may recall, was careful .. perambulate. Even if you cousin the lion is a -------- animal. didn’t know that to perambulate is to walk, or move about on one’s own, you could be fairly confident that First, divide the sentence into two units, using you had the right answer because careful is such a good the punctuation to guide you. Now you have as the choice. first unit, Although the tiger is primarily a solitary beast, and, its cousin the lion is a -------- animal, as the sec- A Clue for You ond unit. The first unit tells you by the use of the word The second important skill you must master for sen- although that the second unit will express a relation- tence completion questions is the ability to identify ship of opposition or contrast. You can see that tigers key words and phrases. These are the words that most and lions are being contrasted. The word that goes in help you decode the sentence. Think of them as clues the blank has to be an adjective that describes animal to a mystery. Among the most useful of these are the in the way that solitary describes beast. Therefore, the words that enable you to identify the logical relation- word that will contrast with the idea in the first unit is ship between the complete unit(s) of the sentence and in opposition to solitary. What is an antonym of soli- the incomplete unit(s). As in the preceding example, tary? Solitary means alone. You might choose the sometimes you have to complete one portion of a two- word social. Friendly, gregarious, or sociable are other blank sentence before you can work on the logical rela- options, all meaning “not solitary.” Then you look for tionship of another unit. There are three types of logical the word in the answer choices that is a synonym of relationships commonly expressed in sentence com- the word you chose. pletion questions: contrast, comparison, and cause and effect. These three relationships will help you succeed Comparison on sentence completion questions. There are two kinds of comparison relationships: Contrast comparison by similarity and comparison by restate- ment. Words that signal comparison are words such Words that logically signal a relationship of contrast as likewise, similarly, and and. Phrases that introduce are words such as: though, although, however, despite, comparisons are just as, as -------- as, for example, as but, and yet. Can you think of others? There are also shown and as illustrated by. Words and phrases that phrases that signal a ...