Context clues are hints that the author gives you in the story. Sometimes they help define difficult words by giving hints in the text.
Answer:
Explanation:
1) Friends, casual conversation, running into each other by surprise
2) Speaking to a marriage officiant, very formal conversation at a wedding
3) Father speaking to daughter OR husband speaking to wife, phone call, casual but loving language
4) Doctor/patient conversation, sick-child visit, business language
5) Speaking to potential future boss, job interview, professional language
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Read The Lessons of Salem, by Laura Shapiro
What ironic situation does Shapiro describe in paragraph 3?
Answer: The irony of having those who “confessed” to witchcraft spared and those who defended their innocence being killed.
Explanation:
The Puritan witch hunts of 1692 would get confessions by torturing the suspects to justify the hunt itself, and those who would refuse to confess would end up being hung to death. The irony lies in the fact that none of the suspects had anything to do with witchcraft, and the proceedings of the trials were especially prejudicial to those who were honest.
Answer:
B.
Explanation:
A and C have awkward sentence structure because "when a car needs many serious repairs, it might be cheaper to buy a new car", it repeats the word car again making it redundant and in C, "When a car had needed many serious repairs, it might be cheaper to buy a new one", it has wrong use of past-tense.
Answer:
I don't know
Explanation:
Search it using the app instead of waiting
