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# grouping

«grouping» in Mova's school dictionary: **put together because they are alike or work together** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a grouping, groupings); verb form (group, groups, grouped, grouping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A set of people or things that are put together because they are alike or work together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouping/#m1)

2) The act of putting things into groups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouping/#m2)

3) (maths) Putting numbers or objects into equal groups to help count, multiply or divide; also using brackets to group parts of a calculation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouping/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths lessons grouping helps with multiplication (3 groups of 4 = 12), division (sharing into groups) and place value (grouping into tens). In science, grouping or classifying animals and materials by features is a key skill. In class, teachers arrange pupils in groupings for tasks. In politics a grouping is a set of parties or countries working together. Phrases: grouping in tens, ability grouping, a political grouping.

### examples

- We used grouping to count the beads in tens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouping/#x1)
- 20 sweets shared by grouping into 5s gives 4 groups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouping/#x2)
- In science we did a grouping of animals by what they eat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouping/#x3)
- The teacher changed the table groupings this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouping/#x4)
- Brackets show the grouping in 2 × (3 + 4). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouping/#x5)
- A new grouping of countries agreed to work together on climate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouping/#x6)
- Grouping words by their spelling patterns helps me learn them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouping/#x7)

### note

Countable: a grouping, groupings. In maths, «grouping» for division means: how many groups of a given size fit into a number, e.g. 12 ÷ 3 = 4 groups of 3. Brackets change the grouping and so the answer: (2 + 3) × 4 = 20, but 2 + 3 × 4 = 14.

### In the corpora

- [Grouping: 12 apples put into bags of 3 fill 12 ÷ 3 = 4 bags.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/132-sharing-and-grouping/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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