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Comparison and Contrast Clues
Sometime you can tell the meaning of an unfamiliar word when it is compared or contrasted to something familiar. Context clues that show comparison include like, as, similar, and in the same way. Contrasts may be signaled by words such as but, although, however, and on the other hand.
Kari’s happy face was luminous, like the rays of the sun.
The clue word like in this sentence tells you that luminous means “shining” or
“giving off light.”
I assumed a rhino would move in a lumbering manner, but it raced across the screen like an attacking army tank.
The clue word but in this sentence suggests that lumbering means “moving in a heavy, slow manner.”
Both terms describe a way of recounting something that may have been said – but there is a subtle difference between them.
Direct speech describes when something is being repeated exactly as it was – usually in between a pair of inverted commas. For example:
She told me, “I’ll come home by 10pm.”
Indirect speech will still share the same information – but instead of expressing someone’s comments or speech by directly repeating them, it involves reporting or describing what was said. An obvious difference is that with indirect speech, you won’t use inverted commas. For example:
She said to me that she would come home by 10pm.
Direct speech can be used in virtually every tense in English.
Indirect speech is used to report what someone may have said, and so it is always used in the past tense. Instead of using inverted commas, we can show that someone’s speech is being described by using the word “that” to introduce the statement first.
