Context Clues are hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers, or it may be in a preceding or subsequent sentence.
Types of context clues.
Synonym
Antonym
Explanation
Example
The Jabberworky poem gives us critical thinking to understand the meanings of the poem. The clues make us can catch up the meanings of the sentences eventhough we cannot understand certain words. The contextual clues topic makes us easy to understand any difficult article that we read. For an example the words ‘devastated’ in sentences ‘Bandar Puchong Jaya Phase 1 was a lovely place to live in but it has been devastated by unscrupulous people.’ If we doesn’t know the meanings of ‘devastated’, the sentences ‘lovely place but….. by unscrupulous people’ give us a negative clues for devastated. So, we can know that ‘devastated’ means is not good or danger. For all of these, contextual clues topic can be practical for us in improving read an English article eventhough our English words is lack.
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