If you grew up with Abraham Lincoln, you would have seen great changes take place between the time Lincoln was a boy in Kentucky and the time he was president in Washington, D.C. Important changes took place in transportation and communication. When Lincoln was a boy, there were no trains. Mail that had to be delivered across long distances was carried by horse or a vehicle pulled by horse. It took a long time for a message to travel by stagecoach. By the time Lincoln was a grown man, people communicated using the telegraph, which was like an early version of the phone. It allowed messages to be sent very quickly.
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What type of context clue is used to help you define the word stagecoach?
A.
explanation
B.
antonym
C.
synonym
D.
example

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If you grew up with Abraham Lincoln, you would have seen great changes take place between the time Lincoln was a boy in Kentucky and the time he was president in Washington, D.C. Important changes took place in transportation and communication. When Lincoln was a boy, there were no trains. Mail that had to be delivered across long distances was carried by horse or a vehicle pulled by horse. It took a long time for a message to travel by stagecoach. By the time Lincoln was a grown man, people communicated using the telegraph, which was like an early version of the phone. It allowed messages to be sent very quickly.
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What type of context clue is used to help you define the word stagecoach?
 A. 
explanation
 B. 
antonym
 C. 
synonym
 D. 
example

bella2025 · Answer

@axie

axie · Answer

" carried by horse or a vehicle pulled by horse. It took a long time for a message to travel by stagecoach. "So which one of these options best fits the example given?

bella2025 · Answer

b

axie · Answer

Not quit correct, an antonym is a word completely opposite from a different word. So like, black and white, life and death ect. So it can't be B.

bella2025 · Answer

d

axie · Answer

Yes! It would be D. It gives us an example of what a stage coach is "a horse drawn vehicle"

bella2025 · Answer

@axie wrote:

Yes! It would be D. It gives us an example of what a stage coach is "a horse drawn vehicle"

it was a

bella2025 · Answer

A stagecoach is a type of covered wagon that is pulled by horses. The sentence before the sentence with the word "stagecoach" mentions mail being carried by horses or vehicles pulled by horses. It is an explanation that helps understand what the word "stagecoach" means.

axie · Answer

it was? does it give an explanation as why?

bella2025 · Answer

@bella2025 wrote:

A stagecoach is a type of covered wagon that is pulled by horses. The sentence before the sentence with the word "stagecoach" mentions mail being carried by horses or vehicles pulled by horses. It is an explanation that helps understand what the word "stagecoach" means.

@axie

axie · Answer

I would beg to differ with that answer but ig they needed the OTHER correct answer.

axie · Answer

sorry :/

bella2025 · Answer

@axie wrote:

sorry :/

its ok