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Dimension Two (B) : Identifying Implied Main Ideas: For Your Better Understanding

This document discusses identifying implied main ideas in paragraphs. The main points are: - The main idea is not always explicitly stated in one sentence, but rather implied through multiple statements. - To identify the implied main idea, the reader must consider what point the author is trying to make by stringing together supporting details across the paragraph. - With implied main ideas, the most supporting details will point toward the main idea, even if it is not directly stated.

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Dimension Two (B) : Identifying Implied Main Ideas: For Your Better Understanding

This document discusses identifying implied main ideas in paragraphs. The main points are: - The main idea is not always explicitly stated in one sentence, but rather implied through multiple statements. - To identify the implied main idea, the reader must consider what point the author is trying to make by stringing together supporting details across the paragraph. - With implied main ideas, the most supporting details will point toward the main idea, even if it is not directly stated.

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Dimension

Two (B): Identifying Implied Main Ideas


Many a times, the main idea may not be expressed inside one sentence. In such
cases, authors typically imply or suggest a main idea without actually stating it
clearly in one sentence. In such cases, the reader needs to be able to figure out
the main idea by stringing together multiple statements giving the idea. Even in
such cases, the main idea will be got by the answer to the question:
What is the main point that the author is trying to make in the paragraph? The
only difference will be that the answer to the question will not be found in one or
more idea sentences.
In fact, it will not be stated anywhere in the paragraph. In such cases, the main
idea gets identified by the fact that most of the supporting details will be
pointing towards the implied main idea. The student is encouraged to locate and
experience such situations in his/her normal reading exercises.

For Your Better Understanding

In the following paragraphs, identify the topic and the idea.


1. Even by the standards of ASEAN, it was a dismal performance. The
leaders of the other nine members of the Association of South-East Asian
Nations used their summit in Bali this week to ladle praise on Myanmar
for its “positive” and “pragmatic” recent policies. These, it appeared,
meant the transfer of Myanmar’s most famous citizen, the Nobel laureate
Aung San Suu Kyi, from prison to house arrest, and the publication of a
“road map” for democracy. Since a return to democracy has been
promised by Myanmar’s current junta ever since it took power in 1988,
and since Miss Suu Kyi won an election in 1990 that has never been
recognised, the Myanmar map looks as forlorn as the Middle Eastern
one.
The disgraceful treatment meted out to Miss Suu Kyi is only the most
obvious outrage committed by South-East Asia’s most repressive and
incompetent government. The generals do not just imprison thousands of
political prisoners: they have turned their country into a place where life
expectancy has collapsed to around 55, and growth has vanished. The
World Health Organisation ranks the efficacy of Myanmar’s health
system at 190 out of 191 nations.
Topic : __________________

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