He was not surprised because he was already going insane. Since he was hallucinating that the raven was spouting words at him. He was already ill to begin with so it was not a surprise he thought the raven spoke.
It explains the point as a body paragraph would
It seems that your question misses relevant details so that we can provide the correct answer, but I hope this will help you. Context clues are words that are used as hints within a sentence in order to help provide meaning or understanding of a difficult or unfamiliar word. There are five types of context clues and the five types of context clues include Definition/explanation, restatement/synonym, contrast/antonym, inference/general context, and punctuation. Hope this helps.
The sentence with a clause used as a modifier to the verb is We left the performance early because we were tired.
The clause <em>because we were tired </em>serves as the modifier for the verb <em>left, </em>it describes it, and gives the reason why they left early.
