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# explanation

«explanation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **what you say or write to make something clear and easy to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (explanation, explanations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An explanation is what you say or write to make something clear and easy to understand: an explanation of how plants grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#m1)

2) An explanation is a reason given for something that happened: is there an explanation for why you are late? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

At school, pupils write explanations (a genre in English: how or why something happens, with steps, «because», «so» and «therefore»); in maths, they must explain their working, not just give the answer; in science, they give explanations for results using evidence. In everyday life and manners, giving an honest explanation when you have done something wrong is better than excuses. Phrases: give an explanation, a clear explanation, explanation for, explanation of, no explanation.

### examples

- All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#x1)
- The teacher gave a clear explanation of fractions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#x2)
- Can you give me an explanation for being late? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#x3)
- Write an explanation of how the water cycle works. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#x4)
- There must be a simple explanation for the strange noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#x5)
- In maths, show your working and an explanation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#x6)
- He left without any explanation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#x7)
- Scientists look for an explanation that fits the evidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#x8)
- "Princess," exclaimed the nurse, "we cannot tell what you allude to without more explanation." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/#x9)

### note

Countable: explanations. Spelling trap: the verb is «explain» (with «ai»), but the noun is «explanation» (no «i»). Similar: reason; an «excuse» is a reason given to avoid blame, sometimes not true.

### In the corpora

- [Long extra explanations can hide mistakes, even when the main answer is right.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/14/)
- [Bots often cannot look inside themselves, so their explanations of their own mistakes may be made up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/12/)
- [A bot never gets impatient with repeated explanations, but you should still tell your teacher what you found hard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/19/)
- [Scientists even borrowed Kipling's title: they call a neat explanation that nobody has tested «a just-so story».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/6/)
- [The adventures first: explanations take such a dreadful time.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «explanation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/explanation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.