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Making Inferences

1. The document defines making inferences as drawing conclusions based on evidence and reasoning. 2. Characteristics of making inferences include using logical statements and indirectly posing questions to get the reader to guess the answer. 3. The process of making inferences involves identifying an inference question, trusting the information in the passage, and hunting for clues like details, vocabulary, actions, and dialogue.

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Making Inferences

1. The document defines making inferences as drawing conclusions based on evidence and reasoning. 2. Characteristics of making inferences include using logical statements and indirectly posing questions to get the reader to guess the answer. 3. The process of making inferences involves identifying an inference question, trusting the information in the passage, and hunting for clues like details, vocabulary, actions, and dialogue.

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MAKING INFERENCES

Group 4:
Sharley grace mendrofa
Okta cristoper laoli
Rizka handayani hia
Zakih tafonao hia
Definition of Making Inferences

 According to Collins Dictionary, Inference is the


conclusion of we draw about something using the
information we already have about it.
 According to Bailer – Jones (2012), Inference may
be defined as the process of drawing conclusions
based on evidence and reasoning.
 Conclusion, Inference is the process of deriving
conclusions based on the evidence and reasoning.
Characteristic of Making Inferences

• In sentences always give logical statements.


• Always tell events that often occur in everyday
life.
• Sometimes the sentence gives a question indirectly
so that the reader of guesses the answer.  
How to Make an Inferences

1. Identify an inference question

First, you’ll need to determine whether or not you


are actually being asked to make inference on
reading test. The most obvious questions will have
the words “suggest”, “imply”, or “infer” right I the
tag like these .
2. Trust the Passage
3. Hunt for Clues

Your third step is to start hunting for clues –


supporting details, vocabulary, character’s
actions, descriptions, dialogue, and more – to
prove one of the inferences listed below the
question and text.
Example
The widow Elsa was as complete a contrast to her third
bridegroom, in everything but age, as can be conceived.
Compelled to relinquish her first marriage after her husband
died in the war, she married a man twice her years to whom she
became an exemplary wife despite their having nothing in
common, and by whose death she was left in possession of a
splendid fortune, though she gave it away to the church. Next, a
southern gentleman, considerably younger than herself,
succeeded to her hand, and carried her to Charleston, where,
after many uncomfortable years, she found herself again a
widow. It would have been remarkable if any feeling had
survived through such a life as Elsa’s; it could not but be crushed
and killed by the early disappointment of her first groom’s
demise, the icy duty of her second marriage, and the unkindness
of her third husband, which had inevitably driven her to connect
the idea of his death with that of her comfort.
Based on the information in the passage, it could be suggested that
the narrator believes Elsa’s prior marriages to be:
A. uncomfortable, but well-suited to Elsa
B. satisfactory and dull to Elsa
C. cold and damaging to Elsa
D. awful, but worth it to Elsa
To find clues that point to the correct answer, look for descriptions
that would support those first adjectives in the answer choices. Here
are some of the descriptions of her marriages in the passage:
“…she became an exemplary wife despite their having nothing in
common…”
“…after many uncomfortable years, she found herself again a
widow.”
“…the icy duty of her second marriage and the unkindness of her
third husband which had inevitably driven her to connect the idea of
his death with that of her comfort.”
4.Narrow Down the Choices

Choice C is the best – the


marriages were cold and
damaging. The passage states
explicitly that her marriage was
an “icy duty” and her third
husband was “unkind.” We also
know that they were damaging
because her feelings had been
“crushed and killed” by her
marriages.
practice

His little brother was clutching his stomach while


groaning. He even lay on the floor. This shows he is
having a stomach ache.There is a candy wrapper
around it, meaning the candy has been eaten. Candy
basket is empty. There was no one else and the only
one who was in pain was the younger brother, so he
probably finished the candy.Seeing the link between
running out of candy and stomach ache, it's possible
the younger brother got sick from eating too much
candy.The incident took place after Halloween.
Thank you

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