# Combine basic and cloze card types?

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I would never encourage someone to spread the same information across multiple notes! I’m a stalwart supporter of keeping related information together. The question I would ask – does having the same/similar example sentence make a vocab word and a grammar idea (which after all, could be happening to a _different_ word in the sentence) related enough that they belong on the same note?

An alternative approach could be that when you see a new grammar formulation, make that the basis for a new grammar-note, and take a moment to learn it by creating _other_ sentences that use that formulation. You can use those on your grammar-note and not have any overlap with your vocab-note sentences.

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However, you have a better idea of what will suit your needs here than I do! If you want to keep things united in a note and cloze is better for your grammar purpose than a question/answer type, you can do this with a custom Cloze note type.

You can’t use a Basic note type to make Cloze cards – but you can use a Cloze type to approximate Basic cards. At its simplest –

```auto
Question?
{{c1::Answer}}

```

You’ll probably want to add a separate cloze-field to your template for your grammar clozes, but as long as you understand the basic logic of cloze, it might work. Let me see if I can recite this correctly …

When the Cloze type prepares to display the Cloze 1 card, it searches every field marked “cloze” in the template looking for c1 markers. Then it displays all of those fields with the c1 text deleted. If you want multiple cloze-fields to show up on the card, you need them to have the same cloze-marker, even if it’s empty.

Experiment with that a bit and see if you can come up with something that satisfies your needs.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/d/9/d9cb0f22b4c5ef6abbb036fa9569694fec2bb310.png)

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