USING CONTEXT CLUES

1)      Using Context Clues; Definition, Example, Cause and Effect, Contrast, Restatement, and modifier.

v  Definition is a passage that explains the meaning of a term(a word, prhase or other set of symbols),or a type of things. Definition may be descriptive of the general use meanings, or stipulative of the speaker’s immediate intentional meaning. for  example, in formal languages like mathematics, a ’stipulative’ definition guides a specific discussion.

The signal words of definition are: is, are, can be defined as , can be called, means, refers to, etc.

e.g: A paragraph is a group of sentences about some related subject or topic.

v  Example is demontrasion with the aim of informing others of how a task should be permofed. it is often abbreviated to e.g.

The signal words: like, such as, for example, for instance, to illustrate, including, aspecially.

e.g: I like fruits, such as: banana, water melon, apple, pier, manggoes, etc.

v  Cause and Effect is relationship between previous clause/sentence and after.

The signal words: because, cause, because of, that for, there for, etc.

e.g:  A wall is impenetrable because it is so thick and strong.

v  Contrast clues are the words or phrase such as: but, however, although,   in the other hand.

The function signal word of contrast clues the readers know that there are two words or phrase of expression with opposite meanings in the sentence.

e.g: Marry is friendly, but jhon is arrogant

       My brother is diligent, although he is busy.

v  Restatement clues are usually used to signal the similar word or expressions with the unfamiliar or difficult word, the signal word are: or, that is, that is to say, in the other hand.

e.g: His sister eats plums or apples every night.

       The poor student forgot the poem; in the other words, she did not remember it.

v  Modifier clues can be a phrase, a clause, or a sentence, the modify difficult words. the phrase and the clause modify the nouns before them, the following sentence can modify the unfamiliar word in the sentence before it. there are a lot of modifiers, the signal word are: who,  which, whose, what.

e.g: A teacher who is seat down in front of the office is my sister does have a husband.

The boys who is  stand up in our field school is my friends they are bad.