04Book 03 · Chapter 04 of 07· 5 min · “Bank” needs the rest of the sentence
One spelling, two neighborhoods
“Bank” can sit near money and near a river. The other words pull it toward one neighborhood. Get the pull wrong and you get interest rates on a muddy shore.
English reuses spellings the way a small town reuses names. “Bank” is a money place and a river edge. The stored pin for the “bank” sits where both neighborhoods are reachable — or the model keeps more than one pin and the sentence picks.
The rest of the words do the pulling. “River,” “mud,” and “platypus” pull toward water. “Loan,” “rate,” and “account” pull toward money. Same spelling. Different tug.
That tug is from Book 1: percents on the other words, then a mix of their points. “It” pointing at an apple was the same move with a pronoun. “Bank” is the same move with a double life.
They sat on the bank.
- Water neighborhood50%
- Money neighborhood50%
The mix walks toward water. Next words sound like the muddy shore where a platypus might waddle. Same . Different tug.
Quiz
6 questions
Before moving forward, test your knowledge of what you’ve just learned!
1.“Bank” is hard because:
2.The rest of the sentence:
3.That pull is:
4.A reply that talks about interest rates after “river bank”:
5.This is the same move as “it” pointing to “apple” because:
6.A score that ignores the mix:
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