![Lesson 2<br />Understanding Positive and Negative Word Strategy for Sentence Completion<br />Using positive (+) and negative (-) connotations (implied meanings) to annotate answer choices is a productive way to eliminate wrong answer choices. This strategy is particularly useful for questions with two blanks.<br />Example:<br />Although the British public once __(+)_____ Prince Edward VIII, the would-be king who renounced his claim to the throne in order to marry a commoner, recent revelations about the Prince’s Nazi sympathies during World War II have ___(-)_____ such positive feelings.<br />-We know that for the most part feelings associated with Nazi sympathies are negative (-). The word although establishes a reversal so we can determine that the first blank should be (+).<br />The formula you should have established is (+)(-)<br />,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lesson2-100421121854-phpapp01/85/Lesson-2-1-320.jpg)
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Lesson 2
- 7. Determine what the blank is modifying.
- 8. Mentally fill in the blank with a word that seems to complete the sentence logically. You can use simple words.
- 9. Look at the answer choices given. You will find one of the following to be true:
- 10. The word you picked is an actual answer choice.
- 11. A synonym for the word you inserted is one of the answer choices.
- 13. egotistical
- 14. benevolent
- 15. comical