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Lesson: Sentence Completion - 13

Sentence Completion Structural Key Points

Similarity

In a sentence fitting this pattern, one part describes something similar to something described in another part of the sentence. Here’s a single-blank example:

Hint

Example

Just as musicians in the 1970s were amazed by the powers of the electronic synthesizer, musicians during the time of Bach _______ the organ, the technical wonder of its day.
  1. were reluctant to play
  2. marveled at
  3. were intimidated by
  4. were eager to master
  5. misunderstood

Solved Example

Explaination

The sentence’s first two words (“Just as”) tell you that the two parts of the sentence are describing similar situations. Musicians during Bach’s time reacted to the organ the same way that musicians in the 1970s reacted to the synthesizer. Since the sentence indicates that musicians of the 1970s “were amazed by” the synthesizer, the words for the blank should express something similar about the reaction to the organ. Only marveled at provides the similarity.The correct answer is (B).

Here are some other words and phrases that act as similarity signposts:

assimilarly
in the same wayby the same token
likenot unlike
likewise
Try redrafting the sentence about synthesizers using each of these signposts instead of the phrase Just as. You’ll notice that some words work only for beginning the first clause and others work only for beginning the second clause. Back Next

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