Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0205 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Step Two: Substitute and Read It Back
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The idea
Put each option into the sentence in place of the word and read the whole sentence aloud in your head. Wrong senses tend to break something audible, the grammar or the sense of the clause. The surviving option is the answer, and the test costs a few seconds.
In practice
Read each candidate back into the line.
Where people slip
Test in the sentence, never in isolation.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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