Definition and Restatement Clues in a Sentence
Writers do not usually want to lose their readers. When they use a word that might be unfamiliar, they often explain it in the same breath, and they mark the explanation with punctuation you already recognize. This makes definition clues the easiest evidence in reading, and also the most frequently overlooked. Readers see a hard […]
Contrast, Cause, and Effect Clues
Some sentences tell you a word’s meaning by telling you what it is not. Others tell you by showing what it caused. Both work through logic rather than definition, and both hinge on a small set of connecting words that most readers skim past. But, however, although, unlike, rather than, because, so, therefore. These are […]