Sentence examples for understand passages from inspiring English sources

A science teacher recently discovered that students who had passed her class were unable to go back and understand passages of the textbook unassisted, he said.

It seems at best heroic, at worst hopeless, to try to understand passage as a kind of motion.

Never a fundamentalist or Biblical literalist, Rauschenbusch understood passages in Scripture that apparently condoned racism or slavery as errant in the extreme, and saw through people who used them for oppressive ends as theologically lazy or willfully mean.

If you don't understand a passage, read the surrounding passages.

But a closer look shows that the exams also required applicants to read and understand long passages, often containing technical terms, and then answer questions about them.

Driving this conclusion is Graham's fundamentalist interpretation of Scripture, one that seeks to understand biblical passages just as they are, without subjecting them to the tools of criticism employed by credible biblical scholars.

"The questions are passage-based, and if you understand the passage, you'll probably get the answer right.

The reading section specifically examines your reading comprehension skills by way of four reading passage sections (each with one longer or two shorter passages), each followed by multiple choice questions that test your ability to understand the passage(s).

His function is to help the reader understand the passage of time.

I began to understand the passage of time, that old coins were part of history.

Eighth-grade level (if a client can read and understand this passage, Literacy Volunteers of Westchester recommends that they enroll in a G.E.D. program): Last week my car developed motor trouble.