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HMFindlay Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Cloze

0Where does this word come from? And maybe what is it?0-
  

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0Could you possibly mean "Close" or "Clothe"? 0-

  • 0Could you possibly mean "Close" or "Clothe"?
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0Could you possibly mean "Close" or "Clothe"? 02br
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01i00Cloze 02i00has no meaning to me.0-
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01font00Mary 01i00___________02i00 dinner. 01i00Please replace the blank with a correct verb form02i00. 01i00(Sample answer 'ate'.)02i02font02br
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00This is called a 'cloze' exercise. I don't know where the term comes from.02br

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0Thanks Clive. Next time I should Google first! And to think I grew up thinking those were called "fill in the blank" tests! Ah, the shamefulness of American education 050010id1
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0 It probably exists in some other language like Dutch, Turkish, etc.0-
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0Aha! I thought I'd seen "cloze" before, and these posts helped me remember where. Clive's right about filling in the blanks. Also, in at least one version of the test, there is a reading passage with every sixth or seventh word deleted (blank). The person taking the test is supposed to fill in a word that works.0-

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