Making inferences plays an importan

Making inferences plays an important role in reading. It helps a reader to comprehend or understand a reading text by combining the reade’s own background knowledge with a context fo a passage. Sometimes an author does not explain or clarify everything to the reader, such as the topic, the place, and the time of the story. So you have to guess these things. If you often make inferences, you will become a good reader. Therefore, this chapter aims to peovide you how to make inferences, which is one of the necessary reading skills, in order to correctly infer the meaning of the text.