Building a Powerful Vocabulary

Building a powerful vocabulary means more than learning new words. It means learning new ways to think about words. In this moment, you will learn thinking skills that will help build your vocabulary. You will learn to guess the meaning of unknown words. You will learn how to use synonyms and pronouns to help you understand what you read.

Using the Context

The context is the sentence or sentences around a word. the context can tell you a lot about a new word. It can tell you what kind

DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT CLAUSES

A clause is a group of words that contains (at least) a subject and a verb.

Two kind of clause :

An Independent clause is a complete sentence. It contains a subject and a verb. It can stand alone as a sentence.

A Dependent clause is not complete sentence. It must be conected to and independent clause.

example :
Directions : Identify each of the clauses as independent or dependent.