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# comprehension

«comprehension» in Mova's school dictionary: **understanding: being able to know what something means** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (comprehension; a comprehension, comprehensions — school exercise)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Comprehension is understanding: being able to know what something means. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comprehension/#m1)

2) (school) A comprehension is a reading exercise where you read a text and answer questions about it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comprehension/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons, reading comprehension tests check whether you understood a passage, can find facts, and can infer (read between the lines). In everyday life, something beyond comprehension is too strange or huge to understand. Listening comprehension is used in language lessons.

### examples

- We did a comprehension about a lighthouse keeper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comprehension/#x1)
- Read the passage, then answer the comprehension questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comprehension/#x2)
- Her comprehension of maths improved a lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comprehension/#x3)
- The size of the universe is beyond comprehension. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comprehension/#x4)
- Listening comprehension is part of the French test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comprehension/#x5)
- Good comprehension means reading carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comprehension/#x6)
- It is a matter of state policy, and therefore quite beyond thy weak comprehension. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comprehension/#x7)

### note

Uncountable for understanding; countable for the school exercise. Verb: comprehend (formal for understand). Related: comprehensible (can be understood). A comprehensive school (UK) is a different meaning: a school for all.

### In the corpora

- [Decoding (turning letters into words) and comprehension (understanding what you read) are two different skills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/24/)
- [Tricky comprehension questions test whether you read exactly what the text says, not what you expect it to say.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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