Para Completion & Sentence Placement

A missing sentence should connect with the idea before it and the idea after it.

Find the unfinished job of the paragraph: example, contrast, consequence or conclusion. Continue the argument at the same level of generality.

“The path was muddy. ____. They reached school with wet shoes.” Fill the gap naturally. 1. The next sentence mentions “They”, so the gap can introduce the walkers. 2. The wet shoes should follow from walking on the muddy path. 3. “The children walked along it carefully” connects both sides.

The middle box uses the same children and path and supplies a plausible action between the condition and the stated result. It is a coherent completion, rather than a uniquely proven event. An unrelated sentence would break the sequence even if it sounded grammatical.

A paragraph says composting reduces waste, describes a successful neighbourhood trial, then notes that households lacked space for individual bins. A suitable ending proposes shared bins as a response to that specific constraint. An ending praising recycling generally is relevant to waste but does not complete this argument. An ending claiming every household already composts contradicts the constraint.

Test both neighbours rather than choosing a sentence that only repeats a keyword. The last sentence must resolve the local transition. A broad slogan rarely substitutes for the missing logical step.

A placed sentence must connect on both sides. Check pronouns, cause and effect, chronology and contrast.

A sentence beginning "This decline" belongs after a decline has been introduced. If the next sentence explains its causes, that position also creates a useful forward connection.

Find the unfinished job of the paragraph: example, contrast, consequence or conclusion. Continue the argument at the same level of generality.

A paragraph says composting reduces waste, describes a successful neighbourhood trial, then notes that households lacked space for individual bins. A suitable ending proposes shared bins as a response to that specific constraint. An ending praising recycling generally is relevant to waste but does not complete this argument. An ending claiming every household already composts contradicts the constraint.

The last sentence must resolve the local transition. A broad slogan rarely substitutes for the missing logical step.

Completion asks what follows naturally; sentence placement asks where a supplied sentence fits. Match both meaning and grammatical reference on each side of the gap.

Identify the paragraph's argument and the missing sentence's role. Check antecedents for “this”, “these” and “such”, then inspect transitions, chronology and cause-effect links. Read the entire paragraph with the sentence inserted. A shared subject is useful evidence but does not by itself establish a mandatory pair.

“The school introduced a book-sharing shelf. [gap] By the end of the month, every class had contributed.” The sentence “Pupils were invited to leave a book and borrow another” fits because it explains participation before the result. A claim about national literacy rates would need additional context.

The inserted sentence must fit both neighbours, not just the preceding sentence. A concluding sentence should resolve the current discussion rather than introduce an unrelated argument.