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Part of the beauty of SQ3R is its flexibility. It's a system that can be modified to suit the material. Say you are reading a chapter that separates passages with numbered questions. If this is the case you would naturally make reading the questions part of your survey technique. Similarly, if marginal notes appear throughout the chapter, you would automatically use them to formulate questions to guide your reading. The rule of thumb is a simple one: Always adapt SQ3R to the material at hand, adding, modifying, or eliminating steps where appropriate.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
1. I'd like to know why "to" is used, not "for."
2. I'd like to know if I can interpret "adding, modifying, or eliminating steps" as "by adding, modifying, or eliminating steps."
Thank you in advance for your help.

Wilpeter · Accepted Answer

1. “to” means “to match or agree with the material content”
2. No. It is not ‘by adding steps’ that the adaption is performed. The adaption causes the changes in the steps.

CalifJim · Answer

park sang joonadapt SQ3R to the material at hand

adapt X to Y is probably used after the models adjust X to Y; apply X to Y. However, adapt X for Y is not impossible; it just seems like a more indirect relationship.

park sang joon adding, modifying, or eliminating steps where appropriate.

The relationship between a participle clause and its main clause is often vague, but I'd say that "by" is one possible relationship. Another one, which wilpeter was picking up on, is the relationship of equivalency.

adapt X to Y, (which amounts to the same thing as) adding, modifying, ....

CJ

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