remark
part of speech
noun (a remark, remarks); verb (remark, remarks, remarked, remarking)
meaning for a pupil
1) A remark is something you say or write about someone or something, usually short. tree →
2) (verb) To remark is to say what you think or notice. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in stories in speech: "she remarked". In manners and safety: "rude remarks" or unkind remarks can hurt feelings; teachers write remarks on reports. Phrases: "make a remark", "a passing remark", "remark on something".
examples
- D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- He further says: "Many writers have from time to time remarked upon the extraordinary magnitude of the numbers with which we deal in this subject. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- He made a rude remark about my shoes. tree →
- "It's cold," she remarked. tree →
- The teacher wrote nice remarks in my report. tree →
- Everyone remarked on how tall he had grown. tree →
- That was a kind remark. tree →
- Ignore unkind remarks and tell an adult if they continue. tree →
- "I don't like that," was the lady's remark. tree →
note
Countable noun. Adjective "remarkable" means very unusual and worth noticing, not "about a remark". Note: "re-mark" with a hyphen means to mark work again.
In the corpora
- Remarks about someone's food can make them ashamed, because food comes from different families and cultures.
- «Just joking» does not make a hurtful remark okay; you can say «That wasn't funny to me».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «remark» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.