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# aloud

«aloud» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a voice that other people can hear, not silently: read…** — 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

adverb (aloud)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Aloud means in a voice that other people can hear, not silently: read aloud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aloud/#m1)

2) «Think aloud» means say your thoughts as you think them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aloud/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

At school, children read aloud to the class, to a partner or to a parent at home; reading aloud helps with fluency and expression. In maths, teachers ask pupils to «think aloud» to explain how they solved a problem. In stories, a character «laughed aloud» or «wondered aloud». Phrases: read aloud, say it aloud, laugh aloud, think aloud, wonder aloud.

### examples

- Please read the poem aloud to the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aloud/#x1)
- Mum reads aloud to us every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aloud/#x2)
- I counted aloud to ten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aloud/#x3)
- She thought aloud while solving the puzzle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aloud/#x4)
- Don't say the answer aloud — write it down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aloud/#x5)
- He laughed aloud at the joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aloud/#x6)
- She was praying the Lord's prayer aloud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aloud/#x7)

### note

Adverb: «read aloud» means the same as «read out loud». Homophone trap: «aloud» sounds like «allowed» (permitted) — «Talking aloud is not allowed in the library.»

### In the corpora

- [Reading the words aloud is not the same as understanding them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/12/)
- [Read it aloud and the quick beat sounds like wheels rushing on rails.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/9/)
- [I played.» A trick: read it aloud, and where your voice stops for breath, a full stop probably goes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/26-sentences-capital-letters-full-stops-and-the-four-types/4/)
- [Reading your work aloud is the quickest way to hear an accidental tense slip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/18/)
- [Reading your work aloud helps you hear missing words, clumsy sentences and tense slips.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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