another word when someone is unclear
1 The minister's ​ statement is unclear and ​ open to misinterpretation. 2  She's unclear about whether you ​ want her to ​ attend the ​ meeting or not. 3  His ​ explanation was really unclear. 4  The ​ motivation for the ​ attack is still unclear. Semicolon. This is a punctuation mark that is used between clauses of a compound sentence when a conjunction is not used, before conjunctive adverbs that join independent clauses, and in a series when the series already contains commas. Introduction. Writing is a series of choices. As you work on a paper, you choose your topic, your approach, your sources, and your thesis; when it’s time to write, you have to choose the words you will use to express your ideas and decide how you will arrange those words into sentences and paragraphs. As a result, your reader knows only that you’re going to talk about river and shore scenes, but not what you’re going to say. Version 2 is an improvement: the words “return to nature” give your reader a better idea where the paper is headed. by Kate Woodford, As part of our occasional series on idioms used in or in relation to business, we look today at the important area of making projects happen – getting projects started, making progress with those projects and, as sometimes happens, failing to make progress. unclear adjective. › not ​obvious or ​easy to ​see or ​know: [+ question word] It’s unclear what ​actually ​happened that ​night. › A ​person who is unclear about something is not ​sure about it: I’m unclear about a ​couple of things he said on the ​phone. These are used to enclose direct quotations and to designate titles of short works (like newspaper and magazine articles, poems, short stories, songs, episodes of television and radio programs, and subdivisions of books or web sites). 1 She's unclear about whether you ​ want her to ​ attend the ​ meeting or not. 2  His ​ explanation was really unclear. 3  The ​ motivation for the ​ attack is still unclear. 4  The ​ terms of the ​ agreement are ​ rather unclear. See if you recognize any of these issues: 1  Misused words —the word doesn’t actually mean what the writer thinks it does. 2  Example: Cree Indians were a monotonous culture until French and British settlers arrived. 3  Revision: Cree Indians were a homogenous culture. 4  Words with unwanted connotations or meanings. 5  Example: I sprayed the ants in their 6  ... Re Difficulties with word choice aren’t the only cause of awkwardness, vagueness, or other problems with clarity. Sometimes a sentence is hard to follow because there is a grammatical problem with it or because of the syntax (the way the words and phrases are put together).
Not ​obvious or ​easy to ​see or ​know.