The first function deals with recognizing a word, the second with understanding the word's context in a sentence, and the third lets us articulate the word by speaking.
VOA: standard.2010.01.15
In thethird grade, we were told to figure out its purpose based on the rest of thesentence and the related events in the story.
Mr Sweeney, originally from Merseyside but lived in London, was serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a third girlfriend but had been the prime suspect in the killings, the court was told.
On mandatory sentencing, I live in Western Australia where we were so fed up with the level of crime and the pathetic sentences handed out that a regulation requiring a prison sentence for a third instance of breaking and entering was forced on parliament.