UNDERSTANDING AND WRITING COMPREHENSION EXERCISE

Comprehension simply means reading with understanding. As discussed in summary writing, to understand any given, passage, one must pay rapt concentration to grasp the message contains in the passage. So, it requires acquisition of reading skills and following the rules involved in writing comprehension exercise(s). Attention should also be paid on paragraphs as we have noted that key points or topic sentences are found in paragraphs.

RULES INVOLVED IN WRITING COMPREHENSION

1.       It requires speed-reading with understanding of what one reads.

2.       Your answers need not be in full sentences unless otherwise stated. So, one may give one-word answer, phrase and clause answer as long as it answers the question asked.

3.       You can explain the points or your answers unlike in summary.

4.       There is no room for copying the whole paragraph as an answer to a question – it attracts zero mark.

5.       Students should pay attention to highlighted or underlined words and expressions because questions would be asked on them.

6.       Questions that require providing figure or speech and grammatical names should not be misplaced. Question that requires figure of speech should be given figure of speech and vice versa.

7.       Words require to replace the highlighted or underlined words must fit in perfectly where they would be put. The word replacing the other must be in the same structure as the one being replaced i. e. part of speech, number and tense.