Tag Archives: context clues

For reasons that I’ll assume are obvious (given my best efforts to temper this, my little blog has taken a modest slide into political commentary of late, owing entirely to my frustration with the insanity and idiocy of this nation’s president). it seems to me a perfect time to post three context clues worksheets, the first on corrupt as an adjective, the second on the same word as a verb (which is used both intransitively and transitively), and, finally, on the noun corruption.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

While I regret posting this at a particularly toxic political moment for vulnerable people on the move across the globe, here nonetheless is a context clues worksheet on the verb deport. It is only used transitively as, alas, people seeking a better life have so harshly learned.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Here are a pair of worksheets on delegate as a noun and a verb. As a verb it is used both intransitively and transitively–and the stress shifts to the penultimate vowel a–as in delegate, like the thing you walk through to enter a zoo or park.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun counterpart which is in common enough use that students ought to know it before they leave high school.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.