Key words in a question tell you what you’re looking for. These words give you important information about what the question is asking for.
Look for words like:
- comparison, compare: to show how two things are similar or different
- conclusion: an opinion or idea based on facts
- consider: think about
- decrease, reduce, lessen: to make smaller or have less
- defend: to give evidence for
- describe: to tell about, often restating what’s in the reading
- determine, produce: to cause
- evidence, basis, support: the facts that support a conclusion, or show it’s true
- explain, explanation: to give a reason for or tell what something means
- increase, enlarge, gain: to make bigger or have more
- influence, affect: contribute to or partially cause
- most effective, most acceptable, most appropriate: best
- require: need
- shift: change
- similar: like one another
- suggest, imply, implication: a conclusion based on the reading, picture, or chart
- summarize: to give the main idea
- valid, accurate: correct
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