Sentence Completion Strategy & Triggers - Verbal Aptitude (Ability) Video

hello everyone welcome to this
collection on GRE verbal ability this is
our lesson second lesson on sentence
completion
I am your presenter who ven and you
could follow me at the link given below
now you must if you recall from the
first lesson you must bear in mind that
amongst all the choices that you are
given for filling in a sentence there
will be certain near good answers right
so they are there to mislead you and to
see to it that the child answers wrongly
the reason behind this is that they are
trying to sift the best from the good so
you have to select the one which is the
most appropriate and closest in meaning
to what is asked for now you should not
be fazed by the kind of subjects that
are touched upon in all the
fill-in-the-blanks there will be they
would be talking about humanities
science literature different students
would find different things difficult
but don't get fazed by all this just be
calm and read them carefully and you
would be able to answer anything from
our last lesson we understood that there
are some trigger words that we need to
recognize in every sentence fill in the
blank that we see so you have to
recognize if the flow is positive or
against so you have to understand what
the trigger word means and what the word
that is being asked of you is whether it
is a positive or negative word and what
is it being asked of you and the lastly
what we had decided upon as a strategy
strategy was that if you are in doubt
and you don't know what you have to
write then try to put your own word that
fits in best and then try to find the
word that suits that word okay so now
from in continuation with the trigger
positive words that we have already
learned there are some other words like
and as well as in addition to similarly
just as just like not just etc so for
instance if there is a statement like it
was not just her diction which was
perfect but also her speech that was so
but also is continuing in the trend of
her diction which was perfect so we are
looking for a word which describes the
speech positively and a word describing
it such could be articulate so you look
for a word like that now amongst
negative trigger words which take it in
the other direction although despite but
a little bit nevertheless etc I would
suggest that you take screenshots of
these positive and negative words and
keep looking at them from time to time
so for example if there's despite her
beaming countenance one could see that
her eyes be light or certain so from
despite we can make out that while she
was smiling her eyes were not smiling so
we are looking for a negative sad word
so maybe amongst the choices if there is
a word like desperate despot NC then
that is the word that we are looking at
okay
now there are other miscellaneous
triggers again you take a screenshot of
these and look at them for because since
unless albiet in addition as well as so
these are other miscellaneous ones and
you can look at the metal aysia
now let us take an example we realized
that Sophia was young and impressionable
but word nevertheless surprised at her -
the choices are resolved in geniusness
decisiveness naivet obstinacy what do we
choose so now in the solution we in our
minds we think that okay we have
understood a couple of things about
Sophia one is that she's young and that
she's easily led or suggestible okay so
the trigger word is nevertheless however
which is another thing for however
surprised so it is also we are surprised
that although she is
and easily led she has a further
negative quality which we were not
expecting off her so amongst all these
words that are given let us look for
that so resolved resolved means firm
determination it's definitely not a
negative quality so that's a no from me
ingenious Ness is cleverness or power of
imagination again that's a no it's a
positive sign then there is decisiveness
the ability to make quick decisions
obviously that's another no naivete that
is lack of sophistication knife it could
be the answer we are looking at it seems
like an answer that we are looking at
obstinacy stubbornness also a negative
character but let us put it in the
sentence when we go back and see if it
works with that it appears that neither
it works best with that sentence and we
go with naivete
again I would suggest that you go back
and forth in the video and try to
understand how the word fits in we go to
another example this time of colon a
colon and semicolon so this this example
is with semicolon it is going to tell
you the trend of how a semicolon affects
a sentence one of Social Sciences major
themes is that of stability versus
change : semicolon to what extent our
individual personality - or different
over time so the choice is given our
transient mal adjusted static disturbed
discreet you can take a screenshot of
this and check it out with the solution
now the theme in this statement seems to
be one of stability versus change the
trigger is a semicolon which acts in the
same direction so we have to think along
the lines of the semicolon so stability
is - - what change is - different over
time so change is the same as different
so we have to look for stability and a
word which means the same so we are
looking for something that is same over
time amongst all the five choices given
it's very
that static is the clear winner here we
don't need to go into the meanings of
the other words to me it's crystal clear
that static is the word that we are
looking for so this is how you can
attempt at all these things so now to
sum up what we have learnt in this
section you have to recognize triggers
various triggers and gauge the direction
in which they are taking you when there
is no clear winner you choose the one
which is the closest by closing all the
options thinking of a word and then
substituting it with one of the choices
which looks the best thirdly be very
very and watch out for traps if a word
looks so easy that it just fits in it
may be may not be the right word so be
very clear that you have chosen the
right word now I would suggest that you
take screenshots of this triggers crop
them and save them somewhere and keep
revisiting them from time to time
whenever you are doing sentence
completion and I again come back to what
I tell you every time you have to
practice and practice a hell of a lot so
go on to the internet make the internet
your friend and look for examples and
look for people who explain how they
have arrived at a particular answer
because that is more important than just
getting an answer so I would suggest
that you do all this while you wait for
my next lesson all the best till then