noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
language
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There is also evidence in favour of the view that what we might think of as pragmatic factors influence language comprehension .
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We can therefore think of there being two somewhat different extra-sentential effects of context in language comprehension .
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We have chosen these because, for the moment, we want to consider only language comprehension .
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Why, then, have the majority of studies of normal adult language processing been concerned with language comprehension ?
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Two scales are provided for assessing language comprehension , one of which is specially modified so that only eye pointing is required.
■ VERB
read
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Much emphasis is also placed on reading and comprehension .
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Her reading comprehension was poor, and the gaps in her vocabulary were yawning.
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He was quite fluent but seemed to read without comprehension .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was caught up in frightening events far beyond his comprehension .
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Some politicians seems to have no comprehension of what it's like to be poor.
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The teacher gave us a comprehension test.
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The test includes a section on reading comprehension .
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We tried to explain the causes of the war at a child's level of comprehension .
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You need to practise your reading comprehension more.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bailey and Harrison found that for certain types of passage cloze scores were potentially unreliable indicators of comprehension .
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But with Clint Albertson, all the learning furthered my comprehension of the play.
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He pleaded for sources to be used for more than just illustration or comprehension .
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I crawled past a man and a woman, whispering to each other with an intensity beyond comprehension .
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In cases of conduction aphasia, comprehension of spoken words and simple spoken sentences can be intact.
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Such abstraction is essential to human understanding, and it has opened up comprehension of natural processes in an amazing way.
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The outcome of the research should be a more refined version of discourse comprehension and an evaluation of connectionist models as implementations.
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What many such individuals have done is to use their superior spatial abilities to buttress their weaker verbal pattern comprehension abilities.