You are reading an informational text for English class, and you find a lot of words you don't know. Your teacher says you don't
need to look up all of them in the dictionary, only the ones you need to get the main point of the text. How could text features help you figure out which words to look up?
Context clues are clues in the text around a word that help you find a word's meaning.
For a simple example, if the text says:
'"Which building should we go to?" asked Tim.
"Let's go to my house!" exclaimed Bob.'
Let's say you don't know what the word "building" means. Using context clues, you can find out that a house is a type of building, and so you have an idea of what a building may be.
<span>My answer is C. admiring. He was admiring the gallantry and courage of
the British cavalry who charged the Russian guns during the Crimean War. Though only armed with sabers and lances,
they charge straight into heavy artillery and many lost their lives in the
process.</span>
This poem is about our tongue, how it can cause trouble and make peace, how it can help build someone up or how it could destroy someone's moral forever.
