🇬🇧 Mark meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To “mark” work means a teacher (or someone helping you) looks carefully at what you did, finds any mistakes, corrects them, and then gives you a score, grade, or number of points to show how well you did.

The teacher said she couldn’t mark my quiz yet because it was still wet from my nervous hand sweat.

Dad promised to mark my spelling test, but he fell asleep on it and left a drool stain instead of a grade.

My friend asked the teacher to mark his test gently, because the last one came back looking like it lost a battle with a red pen.

When my teacher started to mark my homework, she said, “Next time, please don’t perfume it with spaghetti sauce.”

I tried to help my little brother mark his homework, but he kept giving himself a score of one million out of ten.

At the end of class the teacher took papers and began to mark. She will mark wrong answers with a red pen and mark right answers with a tick. She will mark a number at the top and mark each name gently. The students watched and smiled; some looked proud, some looked shy.

This word is at the B2 level, which means it’s used in more complex conversations and texts. It helps you discuss abstract ideas, express opinions clearly, and engage in discussions on a variety of topics, both personal and professional.

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