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Does anybody know English? And is willing to help? Please help me I don't get this.


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Read the quotation below. Then, determine the definition of servitude and list three context clues which contribute to the definition.


". . . he (the horse) was suddenly reduced to painful servitude to pass his life under the harness and the curb, amid, perhaps, the din and dust and drudgery of cities."

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MissPhiladelphia

I believe what servitude meant was the horse suddenly suddenly became a servant or a slave to someone. Though i can't give you three context, though i can expound meanings. For me the horse became a source of profit or what we call a carriage for some cities.

chaplinway

Answer:

Servitude is the state of being a slave. The clues to deduce it are "reduced to", "under the harness" and "drudgery of cities."

Explanation:

To serve is the action where someone or in this case the horse has to follow the commands of someone else, then we have the clue words "reduced" which shows that he has lost the independent value he had, "under the harness" shows him as a prisoner, and the "drudgery" talks about a hard life of intense work in a stressing place,

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