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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#m1)

2) A grade is a mark for your work, like a letter A to F or a score on a test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#m2)

3) A grade is a level of how good or strong something is, like grade A eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#m3)

4) To grade is to give marks to work, or to sort things by size or quality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#m4)

5) A grade is also how steep a road or slope is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#x1)
- Her grades were 80, 90 and 70. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#x2)
- What is her average grade? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#x3)
- Each grade has 3 classes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#x4)
- My sister is in fifth grade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#x5)
- The teacher graded our spelling tests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#x6)
- He got an A grade in science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#x7)
- The truck drove slowly up the steep grade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grade/#x8)

### 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

- ["Requires improvement" is an official UK inspection grade meaning the school is poor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/24/)
- ["Not yet" used as a grade (US) means fail.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/10/)
- ["OtsInka" means a mark or grade; in Ukrainian schools marks run from 1 to 12, and 12 is the best.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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