FCE-CAE Open Cloze Made Easy Mã A678293

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OPEN CLOZE MADE EASY

First edition. November 21, 2015.

Copyright © 2015 D.Méndez.

Written by D.Méndez.

ISBN: 9781326483937

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CONTENTS

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1. WHAT IS THE “OPEN CLOZE” IN THE CAMBRIDGE EXAMS?

2. MISSING PREPOSITION.

3. PREPOSITIONAL VERBS

4. PLURAL vs SINGULAR NOUN.

5. GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION OF PREPOSITIONS.

6. CHOICE OF CONJUNCTION

7. SPOT A COMPARISON

8. CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS / ADVERBIAL CONJUNCTIONS.

9. GAP AFTER A FULL STOP.

10. CHOICE OF MODAL VERB.

11. USE OF QUANTIFIERS

12. CHOICE OF ADVERBS OR QUESTION WORDS.

13. SPOT A “NOT”

14. EVEN THOUGH, EVEN IF, EVEN SO , EVEN WHEN

15. SPOT A “BOTH”

16. LINKING EXPRESSIONS WITH AS ... AS

17. NOTICE “NOT JUST/ONLY……..BUT ALSO…..”

NOT JUST/ONLY……..BUT…….AS WELL.”

1. WHICH vs THAT

2. CHOICE OF QUANTITY PHRASE PRONOUNS

3. WHO vs WHOM

4. AS vs LIKE

5. SPOT A “LY” ENDING ADVERB

6. SPOT A CONDITIONAL / CONDITION (HIDDEN)

7. BUT vs ALTHOUGH

8. PARALLEL STRUCTURE

9. BEFORE YOU ANSWER, READ THE SENTENCE AFTER THE GAP

10. PARTS OF SPEECH

11. DETERMINERS

12. BEFORE A NOUN / AFTER A NOUN

1. BEFORE A VERB / AFTER A VERB

1. BEFORE A PRONOUN / AFTER A PRONOUN

1. BEFORE AN ADJECTIVE / AFTER AN ADJECTIVE

1. BEFORE AN ADVERB / AFTER AN ADVERB

1. BEFORE A PREPOSITION / AFTER A PREPOSITION

1. BEFORE A CONJUNCTION / AFTER A CONJUNCTION

1. PREPOSITIONAL VERBS / PREPOSITIONS AFTER NOUNS

2. PHRASAL PREPOSITIONAL VERBS / PHRASAL VERBS

3. SET PHRASES & IDIOMS

4. ANSWER KEYS

1. GRAMMAR

1. OPEN CLOZE COMBINATIONS (TABLE)

WHAT IS THE “OPEN CLOZE” IN THE CAMBRIDGE EXAMS? The second part of the Use of English paper in the FCE , CAE & CPE Cambridge examinations is the open cloze, in which students use one word to fill each space in a short text. The required words are usually grammatical, such as pronouns, articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs and so on. The most common kinds of missing words are: DETERMINERS This , That, These, Those, Which, Whose... CONJUNCTIONS & ADVERBS Where, What, When, How, Why, Who, ARTICLES AND QUANTIFIER Few, little, none , some , any , much , many, no, enough, either, neither, fewer, less, Both, all, nothing , something. SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS After , although , as , as if , as long as , as though , because , before ,even if , even though , even if , if , if only , in order that , now that , once , rather than , since , so that , than ,that , though , till , unless , until , when , whenever , where ,whereas ,wherever ,while PRONOUNS I me my mine myself you your yours yourself yourselves he him his himself she her hers herself it its itself we us our ours ourselves they them their theirs themselves

AUXILIARY VERBS , MODAL VERBS & OTHER VERB FORMS Been , can , could , do , did , done , has , had , have, may , might , must , need , ought to , seen , shall, should , was , were , will , would. PREPOSITIONS /PHRASAL VERBS At, to, on, in , with, for, of, up, down, about, along, out, into, around, through, over, after , back, across, off, without, away, behind, forward... RELATIVE PRONOUNS, DETERMINERS AND LINKING EXPRESSIONS Who , whose, whom , which, when , where, what , how, that, whom, this , that, these, those... CONTRAST LINKS In spite of , despite (the fact that) , although, even though, even so, however, nevertheless , but, yet , whereas, while, but, notwithstanding..on the one hand...on the other hand...as opposed to, rather than, on the contrary , actually , really , PURPOSE LINKS In order to , for, to , so as to, so that, in order that.. REASON LINKS Due to , owing to , because of, on account of, since , in case (of) , therefore, so , consequently, seeing that, seeing as, consequently , ADDITION LINKS Too, also, as well , as well as , …