Editing Circumlocution (section)

== Language acquisition ==
Circumlocution is often used by beginner and intermediate second language speakers to convey the meaning of a word they don't know in their [[Second language|target language]]. [[Relative clause]]s are often used for circumlocution in English.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2018-01-25 |title=Circumlocution Strategies |url=https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/course-stages/circumlocution-strategies |access-date=2022-09-14 |website=premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org |language=en}}</ref> For example,<blockquote>[Firefighters] are the people ''who'' you call when your house is on fire. A [spider] is an arachnid ''that'' catches insects in its web.</blockquote>[[Synonym]]s and [[simile]] are two other common circumlocution strategies.<ref name=":0" /> A pomegranate could be described using these techniques as follows:<blockquote>It's a kind of fruit, it's red and it has lots and lots of little seeds in it.</blockquote>