Zinstaak: nuance
A sentence task that gives you a one-sided statement and asks you to make it more precise — without simply agreeing or contradicting it.
Nuancing means moving a claim to the right place between all and nothing. The stem usually concedes one side (Sociale media hebben zeker nadelen, maar …) and your half must supply the counterweight, or it quotes an absolute claim (werkt voor niemand) and asks you to soften it without rejecting it. The difficulty is direction: learners either continue in the same direction as the stem, which adds no nuance, or swing to the opposite absolute, which is a contradiction. The words for degree are in the grammar lesson on nuance; this task is about where to point them.
How the exam tests this
Schrijven II has 9–12 tasks in 100 minutes, roughly 7–8 of them single sentences. A nuance task either prints a concession ending on maar or al valt niet te ontkennen dat, or quotes someone's absolute claim and asks for one sentence that qualifies it. Two assessors mark against a scheme; our practice items ask whether the relation asked for is there, whether the connector and word order are right, and — on the quoted-claim type — whether the nuance is recognisable and does not contradict the statement. Agreeing more loudly, or flatly denying, both miss the relation.
What is wrong with this sentence?
Sociale media hebben zeker nadelen, maar ik vind sociale media slecht.
Most candidates write it exactly like this and lose the mark without knowing why.
The rest of this lesson
The rule, the worked examples, the exceptions and what to do in the exam room open with Mastery, together with every other lesson for this exam.
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