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How do I identify context clues?

User Wojteks
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You use your brain duhhh
User Mariowise
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there's a lot of things that you can do to identify them

Step-by-step explanation:

Circle the word or phrase you don't understand.

Underline key phrases and ideas in the sentence. Look for words that give synonyms, antonyms, examples, etc.

Give the main idea of the paragraph the new word is in.

Say the sentence in your own words.

Guess at what the new word means. stuff like that . you can also look at the paragraph and try to guess what the word means just by looking at the words around it that's what I've done to look for context clues

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