The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The great detective

How does Holmes solve all those crimes?

Scientific method would be Holmes’ answer to that question! He would probably come up with the words below. You may well have met all these words in your Science lessons
which emphasises just how much Holmes practises a ‘scientific method’ of detection.
Write a definition for each of the words below and then find example from The Hound of the Baskervilles for them:

Word Definition Example

Conclusion

Deduction

Inference

Observation

Speculation

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