Sentences 5 - Meaning of Words

While reading written text you often come across words that you are not familiar with and you want to reach for a dictionary immediately. Before you do that, just spend a little time in understanding the context of the text and the sentences. You might be able to learn the meaning of the word from clues that are in the sentences themselves.

As you know, the last four quizzes have been on the subject of sentences and we saw that sentences come in several types such as interrogative sentences, assertive sentences, imperative sentences and exclamatory sentences. We also saw how phrases are used in sentences and learnt how to convert a sentence into a question. As we have said in the past, sentences comprise words drawn from different parts of speech and are constructed using the rules of grammar. The writer uses creativity to construct sentences and his choice of words is unique and more often than not different from those of another writer. Because of this the reader may find words that they don’t know the meaning of.