What do syntactical clues involve?

• A. Look at entire sentence structure and the word's role in the sentence.
• B. Look at the color of the page.
• C. Look at the font size.
• D. Look at the punctuation marks only.

Answer: (A)

Syntactical clues come from how a sentence is built and the role a word plays in that structure. By examining the whole sentence, you can see where a word fits—whether it acts as a subject, a verb, an object, or a modifier—and how it relates to the other words. That context helps you infer meaning for unfamiliar words because you can tell what kind of word it is and how it functions within the sentence.

Things like the color of the page or the font size don’t tell you how the word fits in the sentence or what it means. Punctuation provides some signals about pauses and connections, but the core idea of syntactical clues is about sentence structure and word function, not just punctuation.