When my first-grade teacher reported that I could read "fluently enough, but without much comprehension," she took it up with the school.
"Drilling often conjures up images of late-19th-century schoolhouses, with students singsonging state capitals in unison without much comprehension of what they have 'learned.' " Oh, those schoolhouses — with the hickory sticks and the dunce caps.
Flory and colleagues concluded that besides using a standard process for informed consent, the personal contact with a qualified staff seems to be the best approach to secure as much comprehension by the patients as possible [ 13].
He had a much richer comprehension of the social and personal pressures of modernity in the daily life of Paris.
"There is quite as much average comprehension of the need of the thing, as much courage I doubt not, as much previous knowledge of the gun, & there is a readiness of ear & of imitation which for purposes of drill counterbalances any defect of mental training".
22 Our previous report and the current study demonstrated significant differences in basic glaucoma knowledge between SGC members and general patients with glaucoma; SGC members had much better comprehension of glaucoma and self-management.
The color symbols — circles, squares, diamonds, etc. — effectively substitute for key words, rebus-style, making comprehension much simpler.
A cure for the ailing church "would require a much deeper ecclesial comprehension than the present leadership currently exhibit … There seems to be no sagacity, serious science or spiritual substance to the curatives being offered".
Andrew Flintoff and his agent, Chubby Chandler, have apparently changed the landscape of cricket beyond most people's immediate comprehension – much as Kerry Packer did in the 70s, and a one-eyed bricklayer and lob bowler called William Clarke did with his travelling all-stars in the 1840s.
While the folding of proteins has long eluded the mechanism behind protein substrate recognition, our studies show that molecular and data mining tools have improved much, putting a comprehension of proteolytic cleavage within reach.
We assessed their ability to understand 'agree and disagree' or 'yes and no' using the cards and found dichotomous scoring much easier for comprehension.
