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Could you help me please?



Ali S
Oman

Could you help me please?
 
Dear
Hope everything is going well with you all
I need your help
How can I rewrite the instructions below to make it clearer and easier to understand. 
"In order to ascertain the meaning, you are required use the contextual clues within the passage of prose:
 
Thanks in advanceSmile
 

7 Mar 2013      





cagreis
Portugal

Is this an instruction for an item in a written test? Then I would simply say:
Use the text (the context) to figure out (discover) the meaning of the words.
 

7 Mar 2013     



yanogator
United States

cagreis �s answer sounds good to me.
 
Bruce

7 Mar 2013     



libertybelle
United States

Just thought I �d add that the original has a grammatical error:

"In order to ascertain the meaning, you are required TO  use the contextual clues within the passage of prose:

7 Mar 2013     



Ali S
Oman

Thanks dear
Kind regards

8 Mar 2013