After You Listen – Vocabulary – Strategy 1: Using the Context to Understand Words

The word LINE has several meanings. Each sentence below has a word that could be replaced by LINE. Identify the word that means LINE in each of the sentences below. The correct answers will turn blue when you click on them.

Far from wireless networks, cellphones don’t work as well as a land wire.
On the highway, Kerry noticed a yellow stripe, so he didn’t cross it.
Roshan’s parents came from India, but Gilles’ family heritage is Aboriginal.
Electrical is the area of work Roshan is apprenticing in.

Verbs, or action words, may combine with a preposition to make a phrase. The meaning of the phrase is not exactly the same as the verb alone. Fill in the blank in each sentence below. Drag the preposition or pronoun into the correct blank.

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To sound less formal, you could change “I’m interested in folk music” to “I’m folk music.”
“I ran my old teacher” is a casual way of saying “I met my former instructor.”
Talking about electronic signals, if the reception is poor, you could say a person’s voice is cutting “.”
As with other phrasal verbs, “give ” is more informal than “quit.”