🔍 Key Concepts

• Clove hitch is a hitch used to attach a line to a post, spar, or rail, not to join two separate lines • A clove hitch looks like two turns around an object with the parts crossing in the middle, forming an “X” on the surface of the post • Compare the illustrations that show a line around a single solid object versus those that show two lines joined together (which are bends, not hitches)

💭 Think About

• Which letters in the choices show a line going around a post or spar rather than two separate lines tied together? • Of the candidates that show a line on a post, which one clearly has two wraps with the standing part and bitter end exiting in opposite directions, crossing in the middle? • Can you eliminate any option that is actually a loop knot (forming a fixed eye) or a bend (joining two lines) instead of a hitch on a post?

✅ Before You Answer

• Make sure the option you pick shows the rope around one solid object (like a spar or piling), not connecting two rope ends • Verify that you can trace two turns around the object with a crossing in the center, typical of a clove hitch • Eliminate any figure where the main feature is a fixed loop/eye or two separate lines joined together, since those are not clove hitches