English · Ethics in Business

Reference-word resolution & guessing meaning from context (Ethics in Business)

What a reference word points to, and what a new word means, are both hiding inside the sentence

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6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Identifying & using reference words (it/this/that) in a text about social auditing/ethical investments
  • Guessing word meaning from context

The method

  1. Trace each reference word (it/this/that) back to the exact noun/idea it replaces

The common mistakes

  • Misidentifying the antecedent of a reference word

From the lesson

A report on business ethics opens with this sentence about how companies get checked.

The vocabulary

  • it/this/that (يشير إلى)
  • context clue (دليل سياقي)

Builds on