grade

«grade» in Mova's school dictionary: a year or class at school, like second grade (mostly in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (grade, grades); verb (grade, grades, graded, grading)

meaning for a pupil

1) A grade is a year or class at school, like second grade (mostly in the USA and Canada; the UK says Year 2). tree →

2) A grade is a mark for your work, like a letter A to F or a score on a test. tree →

3) A grade is a level of how good or strong something is, like grade A eggs. tree →

4) To grade is to give marks to work, or to sort things by size or quality. tree →

5) A grade is also how steep a road or slope is. tree →

sense in the lessons

A school year (third grade), or a score to add, compare or average. In everyday life: report cards, letter grades. In science: sorting rocks by grade, a steep grade on a hill. Phrases: «in fourth grade», «get good grades», «make the grade», «grade school».

examples

There are 24 pupils in the second grade. tree →
Her grades were 80, 90 and 70. tree →
What is her average grade? tree →
Each grade has 3 classes. tree →
My sister is in fifth grade. tree →
The teacher graded our spelling tests. tree →
He got an A grade in science. tree →
The truck drove slowly up the steep grade. tree →

note

As a class, it is a group to count; as a score, grades are added, compared or averaged (sum ÷ how many). Trap: «third grade» is a name of a year, not the number 3 to calculate with. In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand the school years are called «Year» and marks are often «marks».

In the corpora

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «grade» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

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