Question

Select the correct texts in the passage.

Answer 1

The context clues that connect to the author's idea that the number of mosquitoes were increasing include:

• On a lake, later that month, there were 50 to 60.
• the pests were so bad that the hand held up for 5 seconds often showed from 100 to 125 long-billed mosquitoes boring away into the flesh.

What are context clues?

It should be noted that the context clues are the hints that are given by the author in a literary work.

Here, the details show that the number of mosquitoes were increasing.

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