Help with knitting instructions

[SlipperyVixen]

Can anyone explain some knitting instructions? I'm a beginner and have started on a fairly simple pattern where 4 rows are repeated. I've mastered this but am stuck on the following bit:-

Next row (ladder row). Work across 9 sts, (drop next st off left needle, yrn, patt 6) to last 3 sts, p3.

Can someone explain, very simply, what I do on this row.
Thank you

Yrn means yarn round needle.
Does that help clarify tbings?

So work 9 stitches in pattern you've been following, drop the next stitch. Create a new stich by winding yarn round needle. Work next 6 stitches as per pattern you were following.
Keep repeating the instructions in the brackets until you get to try he lasr three stitches. Purl the last 3 stitches.

Is there are vertical "gap" in your garment, ie block of 6 stitches, followed by a gap?

Thanks for replies. Sorry to sound dense but does dropping a stitch literally mean sliding the stitch off the needle? What do I do with this free hanging loop?
If this is stitch 10 in the original pattern does the new stitch I've created by winding yarn round needle become stitch 10 and I start again with the pattern at stitch 11?
Thanks again

Yes, just drop the stitch off the needle. It's hard to know what garment should look like, but in guessing there's a section which looks like a ladder?

Yes it's a poncho and I now realise that this is how the laddered look is achieved!

Thank you so much for responding - I've got the hang of it now.

Good luck!