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ELA Drills, Advanced: Main Idea. Which of these is a short statement about the main points of a story?
ELA Drills, Advanced: Parts of Speech 2. Which sentence shows when Ian got a job offer?
ELA Drills, Advanced: Punctuation 3. Which sentence uses an ellipsis to indicate omission?
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Was it the red lady, in the book room, with the sharp, pointy thing? Sure, if we were playing the newest spin-off to Clue—Context Clue. You won’t need to make any accusations, just watch this video.
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by happy faces.. why
- 00:07
are they always so happy where's the rest of their body hmm while reading a [Happy face at the front of a class]
- 00:12
story you notice the author compares the word jubilant to the similar word happy
- 00:17
what type of context clue is the author giving you? All right here are the examples
- 00:22
[mumbling] alright so we've got two words that mean roughly
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- 00:26
the same thing jubilant and happy it'd be kind of weird if we refer to one of [person holding a phone with a happy face message]
- 00:30
these things is a jubilant face though wouldn't it I guess that would make this [person holding his face in his hands]
- 00:34
a melancholy face hmm anyway which of our answer choices accurately describes
- 00:38
this comparison is it A an example well because they mean the same thing one
- 00:43
isn't really an example of the other braininess and intelligence are the same
- 00:47
thing you wouldn't say braininess as an example of intelligence though would you? [Mom with her two daughters]
- 00:51
yeah probably not, braininess might be like demonstrating someone could do calculus
- 00:56
in third grade all right get rid of A.. what about D a definition; definitions
- 01:00
are usually a little more descriptive than simply offering a single word like [Book opens and definition: words appears on the first page]
- 01:04
if you're trying to define happy and you say jubilant that's not going to be much
- 01:09
help to someone who doesn't know what jubilant means is it though this one [Sad face with a D grade on it's essay]
- 01:12
earns a frowny face and we define happiness is like what happens when you
- 01:17
get that triple ice cream.. we're left with just two choices synonym and [Man in a book joyous at receiving a triple ice-cream]
- 01:21
antonym. An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another but synonym is a
- 01:27
word that means roughly the same thing as another word right that's the one
- 01:31
we're looking for answer B is our guy well that isn't enough turn that frown [Frowning face turns upside down]
- 01:35
upside down well we just don't know what to do
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