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Peer reviewedScholes, Robert J.; Willis, Brenda J. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1990
Investigates three types of cues [semantic, syntactic (intensional), and adjacency] to subjects of verbs in English sentences. Finds that, when the adjacency strategy does not apply, even highly literate native speakers have great difficulty in correctly comprehending subject-verb correspondences. Discusses findings in context of the relationship…
Descriptors: Cues, Higher Education, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension
