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Inference questions

What does inference mean?

Inference is where we 'read between the lines' to gain a greater understanding of what we are looking at and to reach logical conclusions.

Can you read the sentence above and find the correct inference?

Can you infer that:

…Tom’s car was a Rolls Royce?

…someone had cleaned Tom’s car as a surprise?

…Tom’s car was red?

…Tom had never cleaned his car before?

Read the passage

The mermaid's lagoon

The children often spent long summer days on this lagoon, swimming or floating most of the time, playing the mermaid games in the water, and so forth. You must not think from this that the mermaids were on friendly terms with them: on the contrary, it was among Wendy's lasting regrets that all the time she was on the island she never had a civil word from one of them.

Open Ended

How do we know the mermaids weren’t friends with the children?