By examining word order, you will be able to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in an authentic passage of text.
Read the passage to the right. Use the strategies presented in the lesson above to negotiate the meaning of the unfamiliar words.
Who knows how to adapt to popular music?
a) Numerous singers
b) Fallou Dieng and Aliouns Mbaya Nder
c) Senegalese musicians
d) Youssou N’Dour
C) Senegalese musicians are the subject of the first sentence. The verb is “savent adapter.”
(DeMado et al, 2008, p. 374)