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
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
- 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)