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Tim Moore, Janne Morton and Steve Priceoptions are semantically implausible within the information structure of the summary sentence, and socan be immediately discounted as possible answers (eg rainfall, typhoons).The island will be partially protected from storms by … (10) … and also by … (11) …construction workersgeotextilerainfallsea wallcoastlineLantau Islandrock and sandtyphoonsdump-trucksmotorwayrock voidsAn additional dimension to this aspect were those cases where the provided options come in a varietyof grammatical forms, and where some options could be automatically discounted on the grounds thatthey were syntactically anomalous in the summary sentence.Alderson (2000) suggests that the problem with formats such as this is that they may be involved intesting constructs other than those that the instrument purports to test. Thus, with some of the Gappedsummary tasks shown above, we might conclude that engagement with material is involved as muchwith grammatical competence or with principles of logical analysis, as with reading comprehensionprocesses per se.More LocalMore GlobalT3aT3bMore literalKeyT3a = Summary of single paragraphFigure 4. Analysis of Section – Summary match task type212 www.ielts.org