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# homework

«homework» in Mova's school dictionary: **school work that a pupil does at home** — 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 (homework)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Homework is school work that a pupil does at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homework/#m1)

2) Doing your homework can mean preparing well before something: «She did her homework before buying a bike». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homework/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

work counted in pages or problems: pages of math and reading homework, problems finished; «in all» adds the kinds, «how many more» compares them; phrases: «do homework», «hand in homework», «maths homework», «homework club»

### examples

- Rachel had 5 pages of math homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homework/#x1)
- She had 2 more pages of reading homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homework/#x2)
- How many pages of homework did she have in all? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homework/#x3)
- Each page has 4 problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homework/#x4)
- I do my homework before dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homework/#x5)
- Please hand in your homework on Monday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homework/#x6)
- The dog ate my homework! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homework/#x7)
- We have spelling homework every week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homework/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: some homework, a piece of homework (not «a homework», not «homeworks»). The thing counted is pages or problems of homework. Trap: «math homework» and «reading homework» are kinds; «in all» adds them, «how many more» compares them.

### In the corpora

- [Sam got full marks on bot homework and then failed the test.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/4/)
- [Homework is practice; copying it skips the learning and shows up in tests.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/11/)
- [Mia's dad has a good rule: using AI for homework is like using a calculator.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/0/)
- [Telling a grown-up kindly about a little brother's copied homework helps him learn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/19/)
- [Helping someone learn is different from doing their homework for them; you can explain, give tips and ask questions instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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