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1662, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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homework (n): work that teachers give their students to do at home

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1. homework was meant for them

2. I occasionally meet Mandy (aunt Hermione's extremely boring niece: the only thing she does is answer ''yes'' or ''no'' to my questions), Lena (an incredibly dull, married hen: I visit her once a week, and as soon as I get there she starts helping her sons with their homework ; she won't stop until I leave) or Persephone (rather depressed, yet she is the only one with whom I have something to discuss)

3. over the day’s homework to the children, the teacher

4. Berndt has obviously done his homework as far as knowledge of this area is concerned – he only hesitates momentarily when we reach a junction in the track, taking the left hand option

5. In theory the kids have all gone to do their homework but you’ll have to do some tactful checking

6. It’s household policy that homework is the responsibility of the individual concerned, but sometimes a little encouragement is required in order to achieve this

7. When I was young and had homework to do, I'd look for any number of distractions before surrendering and getting stuck in

8. She is in the first year of her GCSEs and the homework load’s quite heavy

9. When he comes back he explains that Sally is tied up tonight, but that Katie has offered to come over, if I don’t mind helping with her homework

10. Once the homework had been done, Ben said thank you very nicely and bounced out of the kitchen again

11. Roman reading not his homework , but the book of the day

12. “What about his homework ?”

13. Flavio had done his homework

14. Flavio tried to show Otto that he had done his homework

15. I spent the rest of the morning resting in bed and doing homework

16. It was Sunday evening and rather than finishing my homework , I was intoxicated by my mothers’ journal

17. A kid that should be worrying about homework and girls, not mourning a world lost that he would never know

18. After a day of soccer, homework , jogging and car washing the

19. Melanie was doing more homework with Joseph and poked her

20. He was about to turn on his heels and head back to his little flat when his young cousin caught him and asked if he could help with his other homework

21. Gratefully he sneaked past the wailing Aunt in the toilet and went to help with the homework in an upstairs bedroom

22. She smiled and thought about how she had tricked her parents, with Keighley’s help by saying she was going to help a school friend with her homework and look after some children

23. Another example, suppose you do not allow television on school nights until after homework is finished and bed time is 10:00 pm

24. Big Fred had been doing some reading, helping his kids with homework , and stumbled across a rare earth element called dysprosium

25. We had to do our homework in spare time at school or on the bus trip home

26. “I’d done my homework ,” a touch of pride in her voice

27. Pete would have his homework finished

28. This may sound mean, but Hikaru thinks it's awesome and always pestered me to play when I was busy doing homework

29. Jaden was upstairs doing his homework in the dark with a small flashlight and he heard it

30. "I only understood one word of the homework and that was flowcharting

31. "Seems to me that you have been doing your homework , Monica

32. “I did my homework

33. During his high school teaching career, Roger was very strict with homework

34. Students were assigned homework that was to be shown to him

35. Students who could not produce their homework had to have good and reasonable explanations

36. One day, a student could not show her homework

37. I did my homework yesterday evening

38. - Help the kids with homework

39. bed and hang out with my family and pay bills and do homework

40. cries of, “I can’t do my homework ,” along with the hissing

41. Luckily I have saved the school homework projects on

42. Procter & Gamble is known as a company that does its homework

43. “The homework he had done before approaching and selling Duncan Hines the idea of having Park license his name became the model for winning over other acquisition candidates

44. After doing homework , it was time for the children to go to bed

45. ” Randel Stair, his financial vice president, said, “I learned very early on that while he was willing to listen to anything you wanted to comment on or propose, you’d better have your homework done

46. you do your homework , you can avoid some of the issues that can

47. Lorna, having done her homework regarding Scotland in general, knew of the traditional delicacy called haggis which consisted of sheep’s brains; she said that she would rather die of hunger in the desert than eat that particular dish, which made Rick laugh; though he said nothing more about it

48. Prospective students who are considering borrowing funds for the degree should do their homework before committing to any loan program

49. Rabbin had obviously done his homework , and asked Warren a series of well planned and pointed questions about PAX and his plans for it

50. As a child: Your ability to delay playtime until you have completed all of your homework

51. ’ Perhaps such families could also be strong disciplinarians, forcing children to do their homework to a high standard and on time, etc

52. I pulled out my books and started to work on my history homework while Dr

53. reminders about tests and homework

54. If students had a video homework (e

55. post homework or test dates online that might find acceptance since it eases things

56. However the mother was making her daughter do some homework

57. They didn’t do their homework

58. machine but only after I had done my homework

59. As Stephen was leaving, Zeno handed him the assignments he’d completed during the week, and extracted a promise that Cador could spend every weekend at the cabin, promising in return that he would assist in the preparations for the following week, and they would both do all their homework

60. I’d already done my homework regarding the extradition treaties between the United States and Japan, anticipating Bob might try to flee the country

61. Guapo lay on the bed and watched TV while Sebastian did his homework because there'd not be time over the weekend

62. No one was home when Sebastian arrived, so he showered, did his homework , made a bite to eat, did a casual circuit of the garden, surreptitiously working out where a camera must have been to take the photos of him and Guapo beside the pool, noticed from the corner of an eye a sprinkler on edge of the flowerbed that seemed larger than the others, felt the soil nearby, nodded his head as if making a decision, turned on the sprinklers and wandered back, noting with satisfaction that no water spouted from the one he‘d suspected

63. ‗Reggie has some school books we‘ll need for tomorrow, and we have to collect his homework

64. ‗You haven‘t helped me with my maths homework yet

65. He was a very studious boy and always completed the homework given to him in the evening before going out to play with his friends

66. A ballpoint pen, a washed but still recognisable movie ticket, and a note about homework , the paper felted and most of the ink illegible, were fished out of his shirt pocket

67. It led to him being distracted at school and not caring about homework that he was once so meticulous at

68. He and Ivan worked hard at school and often conferred with each other in regard to homework

69. WITH EVERYTHING INCLUDING HOMEWORK -UM MARRIED AGAIN WHEN ) WAS ABOUT WHICH WAS

70. Even if you are raising the next whiz kid, every child needs time to do homework , go to school, sleep, eat, and have free time to engage in creative play and thinking without be overbooked

71. He had done his homework

72. Nathan kept telling me his stories, but then as the days continued he also returned to doing his homework and baseball practice

73. Getting no clear picture herself, she thought he should’ve done his homework to handle his inhibitions

74. If you must do these things after that date (circumstances sometimes force us), do your homework well and take steps to protect yourself

75. Do your homework

76. This ‘writer’ hadn’t even bothered to do his homework , and it was plain that he hadn’t watched

77. Mars is retrograde, so do more homework before making any changes

78. But she would still be expected to assign homework , homework that was rarely done even if students did have the books

79. I tried to get him to do some homework but he would shake his head and refuse

80. She wished there were something she or one of the other teachers could do to improve Doreen’s life, give her the encouragement and challenges she didn’t have at home or in most of her classes either, where if somebody wasn’t disrupting, the teacher was probably having to go over the same material time and time again for the majority, who missed lots of days and all the homework

81. He did not talk to Kara much, except for occasionally asking her about her day and her homework

82. He offered to help her with homework sometimes

83. Reuben and Rashi blew off their homework that evening willing to withstand the anger of their instructors the following day especially since two of their instructors were their parents

84. You can have great success with these ads since if you have done your homework they are highly targeted and are made for the sole purpose of delivering your exclusive message to the targeted audience

85. I can’t have you at school and I have homework to do and there just isn’t much to do in the winter time

86. Maureen had very few friends, and those that she did have, had never once been invited back to Maureen’s for coffee or to go over and do their homework together

87. You have homework

88. the child can do homework free of the distractions of TV

89. - Homework (researching sources that are helpful to solve the

90. In short, do your homework right during packing and you will get an A+ grade during unpacking

91. Before long they were on their way to chores and homework

92. He did his homework and stood up to the chemical industry

93. This means you have to do some homework before the election – but don’t worry, you won’t be graded on it

94. The main concern is how much homework should be assigned

95. He gave homework assignments but they certainly were not overwhelming

96. But you will need to read and study so homework of some sort is needed

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Definition of Homework

schoolwork that a student is required to do at home

Examples of Homework in a sentence

Don’t sign up for Mr. Martin’s class unless you want several hours of homework everyday.  🔊

Angela couldn’t go bowling with her friends because she had too much history homework.  🔊

Mrs. Campbell told the students that if they did not finish the assignment in class, they could complete it for homework.  🔊

College homework is much more demanding and tiresome than the easy worksheets we received in high school.  🔊

After school, several of Miranda’s friends come over to work on homework together.  🔊

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Grammar: When to Use Do, Does, and Did

Grammar: When to Use Do, Does, and Did

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Verbs are essential to creating complete sentences, as they help us express physical actions ( She jumped in the puddle) , mental actions ( He thought about puppies) , and states of being ( I am hungry) .

There are several types of verbs that can each be written in different tenses, so they can be tricky to work with, especially if English isn’t your first language . We’ve put together a guide to help you use one of the most common verbs, do , in your writing . Read on below to learn more!

Action Verbs

As the name suggests, action verbs are used to express actions completed by the subject of a sentence. The base verb do is conjugated according to the tense:

1. Present Tense

In the present tense, do takes the form do or does, depending on the subject:

Subject:Verb:
I/you/we/theyDo
He/she/itDoes

Consider the following examples:

We do our homework every night.

   She does her homework every night.

2. Past Tense

In the simple past tense , the base verb do takes the form did with all subjects:

Subject:Verb:
I/you/we/theyDid
He/she/itDid

   We did our homework last night.

   She did her homework last night.

Auxiliary Verbs

Auxiliary , or helping verbs, are used with another base verb to create negative sentences, questions, or add emphasis. Here’s how do should be used as an auxiliary verb:

1. Negative Sentences

Following the same subject–verb pairings introduced above, we combine the auxiliaries do , does , and did with the adverb not to create negative sentences:

   We do not do our homework every night.

   She did not do her homework last night.

Note that we can combine the auxiliary and the adverb to create the contractions don’t , doesn’t , and didn’t . You simply remove the space between the two words and replace the letter o in not with an apostrophe (’).

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Contractions are more common in conversations and informal writing and typically shouldn’t be used in formal writing (e.g., academic or business).

2. Questions

To create questions, the auxiliary is combined with the infinitive of another verb in this way: auxiliary verb + subject + infinitive verb .

●  Simple present questions:

Do they sell children’s books?

Does he speak English?

Note that the third person verb speaks isn’t spelled with the s when paired with the auxiliary to form a question.

●  Simple past questions:

Did you buy anything at the bookstore?

Did he learn how to speak English?

Note that did indicates the past tense, so the main verbs don’t also take the past tense (i.e., bought and learned ).

3. Emphasis

In positive sentences, we can also combine the auxiliaries do , does , and did with the main verb to emphasize that something is true:

   We do sell children’s books.

   He did learn to speak English.

Try saying these sentences aloud and adding emphasis to the auxiliary terms with your tone. It adds a dramatic effect!

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25 Metaphors for Homework

Homework – a word that can evoke a wide range of emotions in students, from dread to determination. It’s a crucial aspect of education, a bridge between classroom learning and independent understanding.

However, sometimes it feels like a never-ending struggle. But what if we looked at homework differently? What if we used metaphors to describe it, making it seem less like a chore and more like an adventure?

In this article, we’ll explore various metaphors for homework, each shedding light on a unique aspect of this academic endeavor.

25 metaphors for homework

Metaphors for Homework

1. a set of instructions or steps.

Meaning: Homework can be likened to a set of instructions or steps, similar to following a recipe.

In a Sentence: Just as a chef follows a recipe to create a culinary masterpiece, students follow the instructions in their homework to master a subject.

2. A Road to Travel

Meaning: Homework can be seen as a journey or path towards learning and understanding, like traveling down a road.

In a Sentence: Each assignment is a mile marker on the road of education, guiding students on their quest for knowledge.

3. A Fish to Catch

Meaning: Homework can involve trying to “catch” new concepts or ideas, similar to how one might try to catch a fish.

In a Sentence: Students cast their mental nets into the vast sea of information, hoping to catch the elusive understanding hidden beneath the surface.

4. A Ship to Steer

Meaning: Homework can involve navigating your way through new material, similar to steering a ship.

In a Sentence: Just as a captain must navigate through treacherous waters, students steer their way through complex assignments, avoiding pitfalls along the way.

5. A Tool to Use

Meaning: Homework can be seen as a means to an end, like a tool that is used to accomplish a task.

In a Sentence: Homework serves as a versatile tool in the educational toolbox, helping students sharpen their cognitive skills.

6. A Canvas to Paint

Meaning: Homework can be seen as an opportunity to create and express yourself, similar to painting on a canvas.

In a Sentence: Each assignment is a blank canvas where students can brush strokes of their unique understanding, creating a masterpiece of comprehension.

7. A Battle to Fight

Meaning: Homework can sometimes feel like a struggle or a challenge that needs to be overcome, like a battle.

In a Sentence: Armed with knowledge as their sword and determination as their shield, students engage in the intellectual battles of homework.

8. A Journey to Embark On

Meaning: Homework can be seen as a journey of discovery and learning, like embarking on a new adventure.

In a Sentence: Every homework assignment is an exciting expedition into the uncharted territories of knowledge, full of surprises and revelations.

9. A Treasure to Hunt For

Meaning: Homework can involve searching for and uncovering new information or knowledge, similar to hunting for treasure.

In a Sentence: With each assignment, students become modern-day treasure hunters, sifting through information to find the golden nuggets of wisdom hidden within.

10. A Plant to Water

Meaning: Homework can involve nurturing and maintaining your understanding of a subject, similar to watering a plant to keep it healthy.

In a Sentence: Just as a gardener cares for their plants, students must regularly tend to their understanding by completing homework assignments to ensure it grows and flourishes.

11. A Puzzle to Solve

Meaning: Homework can be likened to a puzzle, where students must piece together information and concepts to form a complete picture.

In a Sentence: Each assignment is a puzzle waiting to be solved, with every answer contributing to the bigger picture of understanding.

12. A Marathon to Run

Meaning: Homework can be seen as a long-distance race, where consistency and pacing are key to reaching the finish line successfully.

In a Sentence: Education is not a sprint; it’s a marathon, and homework is a daily training session to build endurance and knowledge.

13. A Symphony to Compose

Meaning: Homework can be compared to composing a symphony, where different elements must harmonize to create a beautiful piece of work.

In a Sentence: Like a composer crafting a symphony, students craft their assignments, ensuring that each part contributes to the overall harmony.

14. A Code to Crack

Meaning: Homework can be like deciphering a complex code, where students work diligently to understand and solve the intricacies of a subject.

In a Sentence: Each assignment presents a code to be cracked, and with perseverance, students unveil the secrets hidden within.

15. A Garden to Cultivate

Meaning: Homework can be seen as a garden to cultivate, where students plant the seeds of knowledge and nurture their growth over time.

In a Sentence: Just as a gardener tends to their plants, students must care for their understanding, allowing it to bloom with each completed assignment.

16. A Map to Follow

Meaning: Homework can be likened to following a map, where each task guides students on a journey through the landscape of learning.

In a Sentence: Each homework assignment is a map, leading students through the terrain of knowledge, helping them explore and navigate.

17. A Story to Write

Meaning: Homework can be compared to writing a story, where students craft narratives of their own understanding and insights.

In a Sentence: With each assignment, students become storytellers, weaving together facts and ideas to create compelling narratives of learning.

18. A Recipe to Master

Meaning: Homework can be seen as a recipe to master, with each step representing a key ingredient in the dish of comprehension.

In a Sentence: Just as a chef perfects a recipe, students perfect their understanding by diligently following the steps of their assignments.

19. A Puzzle to Assemble

Meaning: Homework can be like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, where students fit together the pieces of knowledge to complete the big picture.

In a Sentence: Each homework task is a puzzle piece, and students become expert puzzle solvers, completing the grand educational image.

20. A Building to Construct

Meaning: Homework can be likened to constructing a building, where each assignment contributes to the foundation of knowledge.

In a Sentence: Education is a construction project, and students are the builders, laying each brick of understanding with their homework efforts.

21. A Sculpture to Shape

Meaning: Homework can be compared to sculpting a masterpiece, where students chisel away at their understanding to reveal the beauty of knowledge.

In a Sentence: Each assignment is a block of marble, and students are the sculptors, shaping their comprehension with each refined detail.

22. A Puzzle to Navigate

Meaning: Homework can be like navigating through a labyrinth, where students must find their way through complex concepts and ideas.

In a Sentence: Much like an intrepid explorer in a maze, students navigate the intricate paths of homework assignments, aiming to emerge victorious.

23. A Bridge to Cross

Meaning: Homework can be seen as a bridge connecting what students know to what they need to learn, helping them cross over to a deeper understanding.

In a Sentence: With each assignment, students build bridges of knowledge, enabling them to cross over into uncharted territories of learning.

24. A Puzzle to Piece Together

Meaning: Homework can be likened to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle, where each element represents a crucial part of the overall comprehension.

In a Sentence: Just as puzzle enthusiasts meticulously connect pieces to reveal a picture, students piece together concepts in their assignments to see the complete educational image.

25. A Song to Compose

Meaning: Homework can be compared to composing a musical masterpiece, where students harmonize the notes of knowledge to create beautiful compositions.

In a Sentence: Like composers crafting symphonies, students craft their assignments, ensuring that every element contributes to the melodious tune of understanding.

MetaphorMeaningIn a Sentence
Set of Instructions or StepsHomework is akin to a set of instructions or steps, similar to following a recipe.Just as a chef follows a recipe to create a culinary masterpiece, students follow the instructions in their homework to master a subject.
A Road to TravelHomework is a journey or path towards learning and understanding, like traveling down a road.Each assignment is a mile marker on the road of education, guiding students on their quest for knowledge.
A Fish to CatchHomework involves trying to “catch” new concepts or ideas, similar to catching a fish.Students cast their mental nets into the vast sea of information, hoping to catch the elusive understanding hidden beneath the surface.
A Ship to SteerHomework requires navigating through new material, similar to steering a ship.Just as a captain must navigate through treacherous waters, students steer their way through complex assignments, avoiding pitfalls along the way.
A Tool to UseHomework is a means to an end, like a tool used to accomplish a task.Homework serves as a versatile tool in the educational toolbox, helping students sharpen their cognitive skills.
A Canvas to PaintHomework offers an opportunity to create and express oneself, similar to painting on a canvas.Each assignment is a blank canvas where students can brush strokes of their unique understanding, creating a masterpiece of comprehension.
A Battle to FightHomework can feel like a struggle or challenge that needs to be overcome, like a battle.Armed with knowledge as their sword and determination as their shield, students engage in the intellectual battles of homework.
A Journey to Embark OnHomework is a journey of discovery and learning, like embarking on a new adventure.Every homework assignment is an exciting expedition into the uncharted territories of knowledge, full of surprises and revelations.
A Treasure to Hunt ForHomework involves searching for and uncovering new information or knowledge, similar to hunting for treasure.With each assignment, students become modern-day treasure hunters, sifting through information to find the golden nuggets of wisdom hidden within.
A Plant to WaterHomework requires nurturing and maintaining one’s understanding of a subject, similar to watering a plant.Just as a gardener cares for their plants, students must regularly tend to their understanding by completing homework assignments to ensure it grows and flourishes.
A Puzzle to SolveHomework is akin to a puzzle, where students must piece together information and concepts to form a complete picture.Each assignment is a puzzle waiting to be solved, with every answer contributing to the bigger picture of understanding.
A Marathon to RunHomework is a long-distance race, where consistency and pacing are key to reaching the finish line successfully.Education is not a sprint; it’s a marathon, and homework is a daily training session to build endurance and knowledge.
A Symphony to ComposeHomework is like composing a symphony, where different elements must harmonize to create a beautiful piece of work.Like a composer crafting a symphony, students craft their assignments, ensuring that each part contributes to the overall harmony.
A Code to CrackHomework is compared to deciphering a complex code, where students work diligently to understand and solve the intricacies of a subject.Each assignment presents a code to be cracked, and with perseverance, students unveil the secrets hidden within.
A Garden to CultivateHomework is seen as a garden to cultivate, where students plant the seeds of knowledge and nurture their growth over time.Just as a gardener tends to their plants, students must care for their understanding, allowing it to bloom with each completed assignment.
A Map to FollowHomework is likened to following a map, where each task guides students on a journey through the landscape of learning.Each homework task is a map, leading students through the terrain of knowledge, helping them explore and navigate.
A Story to WriteHomework is compared to writing a story, where students craft narratives of their own understanding and insights.With each assignment, students become storytellers, weaving together facts and ideas to create compelling narratives of learning.
A Recipe to MasterHomework is seen as a recipe to master, with each step representing a key ingredient in the dish of comprehension.Just as a chef perfects a recipe, students perfect their understanding by diligently following the steps of their assignments.
A Puzzle to AssembleHomework is likened to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle, where each element represents a crucial part of the overall comprehension.Just as puzzle enthusiasts meticulously connect pieces to reveal a picture, students piece together concepts in their assignments to see the complete educational image.
A Song to ComposeHomework is compared to composing a musical masterpiece, where students harmonize the notes of knowledge to create beautiful compositions.Like composers crafting symphonies, students craft their assignments, ensuring that every element contributes to the melodious tune of understanding.
A Game to PlayHomework is seen as a game, with each task presenting a unique challenge for students to overcome.Much like athletes on the field, students strategize and play the “game” of homework, aiming for victory in the form of expanded knowledge.
A Puzzle to UntangleHomework is likened to untangling a complex knot, where students patiently work through the intricacies to find clarity.Each assignment is a knotted problem waiting to be unraveled, with students as the problem solvers, diligently working through the tangles.
A Code to DecryptHomework is compared to decrypting a code, where students decipher the intricate patterns of knowledge to reveal its secrets.Students take on the role of cryptographers, unraveling the coded messages within their assignments to access the treasure of understanding.
A Garden to HarvestHomework is seen as a garden ready for harvest, where students reap the fruits of their learning labor.With each assignment, students tend to their intellectual gardens, patiently waiting for the moment when they can gather the knowledge they’ve sown.
A Roadmap to FollowHomework is likened to following a roadmap, where students use assignments as guides on their educational journey.Each homework task is a signpost on the roadmap of knowledge, helping students navigate the twists and turns of learning.
A Sculpture to ShapeHomework is compared to sculpting a masterpiece, where students chisel away at their understanding to reveal the beauty of knowledge.Each assignment is a block of marble, and students are the sculptors, shaping their comprehension with each refined detail.
A Puzzle to NavigateHomework is like navigating through a labyrinth, where students must find their way through complex concepts and ideas.Much like an intrepid explorer in a maze, students navigate the intricate paths of homework assignments, aiming to emerge victorious.
A Bridge to CrossHomework is seen as a bridge connecting what students know to what they need to learn, helping them cross over to a deeper understanding.With each assignment, students build bridges of knowledge, enabling them to cross over into uncharted territories of learning.
A Puzzle to Piece TogetherHomework is likened to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle, where each element represents a crucial part of the overall comprehension.Just as puzzle enthusiasts meticulously connect pieces to reveal a picture, students piece together concepts in their assignments to see the complete educational image.
A Song to ComposeHomework is compared to composing a musical masterpiece, where students harmonize the notes of knowledge to create beautiful compositions.Like composers crafting symphonies, students craft their assignments, ensuring that every element contributes to the melodious tune of understanding.

These metaphors for homework offer a rich tapestry of perspectives, each highlighting a distinct facet of the educational journey. By adopting these metaphors, students can shift their mindset from mere homework completion to engaging in exciting adventures, solving puzzles, composing symphonies, and nurturing gardens of knowledge. Homework becomes not just a task but a canvas for creativity and exploration.

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When to use 'on' and 'with' with homework

I am teaching a class and a student asked why "on" changes to "with" in the second sentence.

I need help on my homework. I'll help you with your homework.

"With" works fine in both sentences, but I feel that "on" doesn't feel natural in the second sentence. I couldn't give a student a grammatical rule about this.

Can anyone explain why "on" doesn't work in the second sentence as in:

I'll help you on your homework.

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  • 2 Technically "with" is the proper choice of preposition here for both sentences, but in most English vernacular the first sentence is totally acceptable. However, the correct word choice is "with". "On", even in it's adverbial sense, is meant more to "continue an action", such as, "they blabbed on and on....". The main rule of prepositions is just that they need a noun/object to follow them. Generally, using them at the end of a sentence is not allowed but there are circumstances whereby if the logic of the sentence is impeded then you can use one. –  Kace36 Commented Jul 9, 2017 at 6:41
  • Well, why does it change? You haven't explained why you think on "doesn't work" or doesn't sound "natural" here. It is every bit as idiomatic and natural as with , or so it sounds to me. It's a commonplace in English idiom to perform an action on sth, even helping on homework. I can't think of a grammatical "rule" that prohibits it. "With" may be more common, but no-one I know would bat an eye at "on". –  P. E. Dant Commented Jul 9, 2017 at 6:41
  • To this native (AmE) speaker, "I need help on my homework" is just a little off, so the question is not why it switches, but why this seems more acceptable; it sounds marginally a little better. –  Xanne Commented Jul 9, 2017 at 7:31
  • As a 60+ BrE speaker. (1) doesn't seem at all natural to me. I would always say 'help with' in this context. –  Kate Bunting Commented Jul 9, 2017 at 8:54

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Does Homework Really Help Students Learn?

A conversation with a Wheelock researcher, a BU student, and a fourth-grade teacher

child doing homework

“Quality homework is engaging and relevant to kids’ lives,” says Wheelock’s Janine Bempechat. “It gives them autonomy and engages them in the community and with their families. In some subjects, like math, worksheets can be very helpful. It has to do with the value of practicing over and over.” Photo by iStock/Glenn Cook Photography

Do your homework.

If only it were that simple.

Educators have debated the merits of homework since the late 19th century. In recent years, amid concerns of some parents and teachers that children are being stressed out by too much homework, things have only gotten more fraught.

“Homework is complicated,” says developmental psychologist Janine Bempechat, a Wheelock College of Education & Human Development clinical professor. The author of the essay “ The Case for (Quality) Homework—Why It Improves Learning and How Parents Can Help ” in the winter 2019 issue of Education Next , Bempechat has studied how the debate about homework is influencing teacher preparation, parent and student beliefs about learning, and school policies.

She worries especially about socioeconomically disadvantaged students from low-performing schools who, according to research by Bempechat and others, get little or no homework.

BU Today  sat down with Bempechat and Erin Bruce (Wheelock’17,’18), a new fourth-grade teacher at a suburban Boston school, and future teacher freshman Emma Ardizzone (Wheelock) to talk about what quality homework looks like, how it can help children learn, and how schools can equip teachers to design it, evaluate it, and facilitate parents’ role in it.

BU Today: Parents and educators who are against homework in elementary school say there is no research definitively linking it to academic performance for kids in the early grades. You’ve said that they’re missing the point.

Bempechat : I think teachers assign homework in elementary school as a way to help kids develop skills they’ll need when they’re older—to begin to instill a sense of responsibility and to learn planning and organizational skills. That’s what I think is the greatest value of homework—in cultivating beliefs about learning and skills associated with academic success. If we greatly reduce or eliminate homework in elementary school, we deprive kids and parents of opportunities to instill these important learning habits and skills.

We do know that beginning in late middle school, and continuing through high school, there is a strong and positive correlation between homework completion and academic success.

That’s what I think is the greatest value of homework—in cultivating beliefs about learning and skills associated with academic success.

You talk about the importance of quality homework. What is that?

Quality homework is engaging and relevant to kids’ lives. It gives them autonomy and engages them in the community and with their families. In some subjects, like math, worksheets can be very helpful. It has to do with the value of practicing over and over.

Janine Bempechat

What are your concerns about homework and low-income children?

The argument that some people make—that homework “punishes the poor” because lower-income parents may not be as well-equipped as affluent parents to help their children with homework—is very troubling to me. There are no parents who don’t care about their children’s learning. Parents don’t actually have to help with homework completion in order for kids to do well. They can help in other ways—by helping children organize a study space, providing snacks, being there as a support, helping children work in groups with siblings or friends.

Isn’t the discussion about getting rid of homework happening mostly in affluent communities?

Yes, and the stories we hear of kids being stressed out from too much homework—four or five hours of homework a night—are real. That’s problematic for physical and mental health and overall well-being. But the research shows that higher-income students get a lot more homework than lower-income kids.

Teachers may not have as high expectations for lower-income children. Schools should bear responsibility for providing supports for kids to be able to get their homework done—after-school clubs, community support, peer group support. It does kids a disservice when our expectations are lower for them.

The conversation around homework is to some extent a social class and social justice issue. If we eliminate homework for all children because affluent children have too much, we’re really doing a disservice to low-income children. They need the challenge, and every student can rise to the challenge with enough supports in place.

What did you learn by studying how education schools are preparing future teachers to handle homework?

My colleague, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, at the University of California, Davis, School of Education, and I interviewed faculty members at education schools, as well as supervising teachers, to find out how students are being prepared. And it seemed that they weren’t. There didn’t seem to be any readings on the research, or conversations on what high-quality homework is and how to design it.

Erin, what kind of training did you get in handling homework?

Bruce : I had phenomenal professors at Wheelock, but homework just didn’t come up. I did lots of student teaching. I’ve been in classrooms where the teachers didn’t assign any homework, and I’ve been in rooms where they assigned hours of homework a night. But I never even considered homework as something that was my decision. I just thought it was something I’d pull out of a book and it’d be done.

I started giving homework on the first night of school this year. My first assignment was to go home and draw a picture of the room where you do your homework. I want to know if it’s at a table and if there are chairs around it and if mom’s cooking dinner while you’re doing homework.

The second night I asked them to talk to a grown-up about how are you going to be able to get your homework done during the week. The kids really enjoyed it. There’s a running joke that I’m teaching life skills.

Friday nights, I read all my kids’ responses to me on their homework from the week and it’s wonderful. They pour their hearts out. It’s like we’re having a conversation on my couch Friday night.

It matters to know that the teacher cares about you and that what you think matters to the teacher. Homework is a vehicle to connect home and school…for parents to know teachers are welcoming to them and their families.

Bempechat : I can’t imagine that most new teachers would have the intuition Erin had in designing homework the way she did.

Ardizzone : Conversations with kids about homework, feeling you’re being listened to—that’s such a big part of wanting to do homework….I grew up in Westchester County. It was a pretty demanding school district. My junior year English teacher—I loved her—she would give us feedback, have meetings with all of us. She’d say, “If you have any questions, if you have anything you want to talk about, you can talk to me, here are my office hours.” It felt like she actually cared.

Bempechat : It matters to know that the teacher cares about you and that what you think matters to the teacher. Homework is a vehicle to connect home and school…for parents to know teachers are welcoming to them and their families.

Ardizzone : But can’t it lead to parents being overbearing and too involved in their children’s lives as students?

Bempechat : There’s good help and there’s bad help. The bad help is what you’re describing—when parents hover inappropriately, when they micromanage, when they see their children confused and struggling and tell them what to do.

Good help is when parents recognize there’s a struggle going on and instead ask informative questions: “Where do you think you went wrong?” They give hints, or pointers, rather than saying, “You missed this,” or “You didn’t read that.”

Bruce : I hope something comes of this. I hope BU or Wheelock can think of some way to make this a more pressing issue. As a first-year teacher, it was not something I even thought about on the first day of school—until a kid raised his hand and said, “Do we have homework?” It would have been wonderful if I’d had a plan from day one.

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There are 81 comments on Does Homework Really Help Students Learn?

Insightful! The values about homework in elementary schools are well aligned with my intuition as a parent.

when i finish my work i do my homework and i sometimes forget what to do because i did not get enough sleep

same omg it does not help me it is stressful and if I have it in more than one class I hate it.

Same I think my parent wants to help me but, she doesn’t care if I get bad grades so I just try my best and my grades are great.

I think that last question about Good help from parents is not know to all parents, we do as our parents did or how we best think it can be done, so maybe coaching parents or giving them resources on how to help with homework would be very beneficial for the parent on how to help and for the teacher to have consistency and improve homework results, and of course for the child. I do see how homework helps reaffirm the knowledge obtained in the classroom, I also have the ability to see progress and it is a time I share with my kids

The answer to the headline question is a no-brainer – a more pressing problem is why there is a difference in how students from different cultures succeed. Perfect example is the student population at BU – why is there a majority population of Asian students and only about 3% black students at BU? In fact at some universities there are law suits by Asians to stop discrimination and quotas against admitting Asian students because the real truth is that as a group they are demonstrating better qualifications for admittance, while at the same time there are quotas and reduced requirements for black students to boost their portion of the student population because as a group they do more poorly in meeting admissions standards – and it is not about the Benjamins. The real problem is that in our PC society no one has the gazuntas to explore this issue as it may reveal that all people are not created equal after all. Or is it just environmental cultural differences??????

I get you have a concern about the issue but that is not even what the point of this article is about. If you have an issue please take this to the site we have and only post your opinion about the actual topic

This is not at all what the article is talking about.

This literally has nothing to do with the article brought up. You should really take your opinions somewhere else before you speak about something that doesn’t make sense.

we have the same name

so they have the same name what of it?

lol you tell her

totally agree

What does that have to do with homework, that is not what the article talks about AT ALL.

Yes, I think homework plays an important role in the development of student life. Through homework, students have to face challenges on a daily basis and they try to solve them quickly.I am an intense online tutor at 24x7homeworkhelp and I give homework to my students at that level in which they handle it easily.

More than two-thirds of students said they used alcohol and drugs, primarily marijuana, to cope with stress.

You know what’s funny? I got this assignment to write an argument for homework about homework and this article was really helpful and understandable, and I also agree with this article’s point of view.

I also got the same task as you! I was looking for some good resources and I found this! I really found this article useful and easy to understand, just like you! ^^

i think that homework is the best thing that a child can have on the school because it help them with their thinking and memory.

I am a child myself and i think homework is a terrific pass time because i can’t play video games during the week. It also helps me set goals.

Homework is not harmful ,but it will if there is too much

I feel like, from a minors point of view that we shouldn’t get homework. Not only is the homework stressful, but it takes us away from relaxing and being social. For example, me and my friends was supposed to hang at the mall last week but we had to postpone it since we all had some sort of work to do. Our minds shouldn’t be focused on finishing an assignment that in realty, doesn’t matter. I completely understand that we should have homework. I have to write a paper on the unimportance of homework so thanks.

homework isn’t that bad

Are you a student? if not then i don’t really think you know how much and how severe todays homework really is

i am a student and i do not enjoy homework because i practice my sport 4 out of the five days we have school for 4 hours and that’s not even counting the commute time or the fact i still have to shower and eat dinner when i get home. its draining!

i totally agree with you. these people are such boomers

why just why

they do make a really good point, i think that there should be a limit though. hours and hours of homework can be really stressful, and the extra work isn’t making a difference to our learning, but i do believe homework should be optional and extra credit. that would make it for students to not have the leaning stress of a assignment and if you have a low grade you you can catch up.

Studies show that homework improves student achievement in terms of improved grades, test results, and the likelihood to attend college. Research published in the High School Journal indicates that students who spent between 31 and 90 minutes each day on homework “scored about 40 points higher on the SAT-Mathematics subtest than their peers, who reported spending no time on homework each day, on average.” On both standardized tests and grades, students in classes that were assigned homework outperformed 69% of students who didn’t have homework. A majority of studies on homework’s impact – 64% in one meta-study and 72% in another – showed that take home assignments were effective at improving academic achievement. Research by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) concluded that increased homework led to better GPAs and higher probability of college attendance for high school boys. In fact, boys who attended college did more than three hours of additional homework per week in high school.

So how are your measuring student achievement? That’s the real question. The argument that doing homework is simply a tool for teaching responsibility isn’t enough for me. We can teach responsibility in a number of ways. Also the poor argument that parents don’t need to help with homework, and that students can do it on their own, is wishful thinking at best. It completely ignores neurodiverse students. Students in poverty aren’t magically going to find a space to do homework, a friend’s or siblings to help them do it, and snacks to eat. I feel like the author of this piece has never set foot in a classroom of students.

THIS. This article is pathetic coming from a university. So intellectually dishonest, refusing to address the havoc of capitalism and poverty plays on academic success in life. How can they in one sentence use poor kids in an argument and never once address that poor children have access to damn near 0 of the resources affluent kids have? Draw me a picture and let’s talk about feelings lmao what a joke is that gonna put food in their belly so they can have the calories to burn in order to use their brain to study? What about quiet their 7 other siblings that they share a single bedroom with for hours? Is it gonna force the single mom to magically be at home and at work at the same time to cook food while you study and be there to throw an encouraging word?

Also the “parents don’t need to be a parent and be able to guide their kid at all academically they just need to exist in the next room” is wild. Its one thing if a parent straight up is not equipped but to say kids can just figured it out is…. wow coming from an educator What’s next the teacher doesn’t need to teach cause the kid can just follow the packet and figure it out?

Well then get a tutor right? Oh wait you are poor only affluent kids can afford a tutor for their hours of homework a day were they on average have none of the worries a poor child does. Does this address that poor children are more likely to also suffer abuse and mental illness? Like mentioned what about kids that can’t learn or comprehend the forced standardized way? Just let em fail? These children regularly are not in “special education”(some of those are a joke in their own and full of neglect and abuse) programs cause most aren’t even acknowledged as having disabilities or disorders.

But yes all and all those pesky poor kids just aren’t being worked hard enough lol pretty sure poor children’s existence just in childhood is more work, stress, and responsibility alone than an affluent child’s entire life cycle. Love they never once talked about the quality of education in the classroom being so bad between the poor and affluent it can qualify as segregation, just basically blamed poor people for being lazy, good job capitalism for failing us once again!

why the hell?

you should feel bad for saying this, this article can be helpful for people who has to write a essay about it

This is more of a political rant than it is about homework

I know a teacher who has told his students their homework is to find something they are interested in, pursue it and then come share what they learn. The student responses are quite compelling. One girl taught herself German so she could talk to her grandfather. One boy did a research project on Nelson Mandela because the teacher had mentioned him in class. Another boy, a both on the autism spectrum, fixed his family’s computer. The list goes on. This is fourth grade. I think students are highly motivated to learn, when we step aside and encourage them.

The whole point of homework is to give the students a chance to use the material that they have been presented with in class. If they never have the opportunity to use that information, and discover that it is actually useful, it will be in one ear and out the other. As a science teacher, it is critical that the students are challenged to use the material they have been presented with, which gives them the opportunity to actually think about it rather than regurgitate “facts”. Well designed homework forces the student to think conceptually, as opposed to regurgitation, which is never a pretty sight

Wonderful discussion. and yes, homework helps in learning and building skills in students.

not true it just causes kids to stress

Homework can be both beneficial and unuseful, if you will. There are students who are gifted in all subjects in school and ones with disabilities. Why should the students who are gifted get the lucky break, whereas the people who have disabilities suffer? The people who were born with this “gift” go through school with ease whereas people with disabilities struggle with the work given to them. I speak from experience because I am one of those students: the ones with disabilities. Homework doesn’t benefit “us”, it only tears us down and put us in an abyss of confusion and stress and hopelessness because we can’t learn as fast as others. Or we can’t handle the amount of work given whereas the gifted students go through it with ease. It just brings us down and makes us feel lost; because no mater what, it feels like we are destined to fail. It feels like we weren’t “cut out” for success.

homework does help

here is the thing though, if a child is shoved in the face with a whole ton of homework that isn’t really even considered homework it is assignments, it’s not helpful. the teacher should make homework more of a fun learning experience rather than something that is dreaded

This article was wonderful, I am going to ask my teachers about extra, or at all giving homework.

I agree. Especially when you have homework before an exam. Which is distasteful as you’ll need that time to study. It doesn’t make any sense, nor does us doing homework really matters as It’s just facts thrown at us.

Homework is too severe and is just too much for students, schools need to decrease the amount of homework. When teachers assign homework they forget that the students have other classes that give them the same amount of homework each day. Students need to work on social skills and life skills.

I disagree.

Beyond achievement, proponents of homework argue that it can have many other beneficial effects. They claim it can help students develop good study habits so they are ready to grow as their cognitive capacities mature. It can help students recognize that learning can occur at home as well as at school. Homework can foster independent learning and responsible character traits. And it can give parents an opportunity to see what’s going on at school and let them express positive attitudes toward achievement.

Homework is helpful because homework helps us by teaching us how to learn a specific topic.

As a student myself, I can say that I have almost never gotten the full 9 hours of recommended sleep time, because of homework. (Now I’m writing an essay on it in the middle of the night D=)

I am a 10 year old kid doing a report about “Is homework good or bad” for homework before i was going to do homework is bad but the sources from this site changed my mind!

Homeowkr is god for stusenrs

I agree with hunter because homework can be so stressful especially with this whole covid thing no one has time for homework and every one just wants to get back to there normal lives it is especially stressful when you go on a 2 week vaca 3 weeks into the new school year and and then less then a week after you come back from the vaca you are out for over a month because of covid and you have no way to get the assignment done and turned in

As great as homework is said to be in the is article, I feel like the viewpoint of the students was left out. Every where I go on the internet researching about this topic it almost always has interviews from teachers, professors, and the like. However isn’t that a little biased? Of course teachers are going to be for homework, they’re not the ones that have to stay up past midnight completing the homework from not just one class, but all of them. I just feel like this site is one-sided and you should include what the students of today think of spending four hours every night completing 6-8 classes worth of work.

Are we talking about homework or practice? Those are two very different things and can result in different outcomes.

Homework is a graded assignment. I do not know of research showing the benefits of graded assignments going home.

Practice; however, can be extremely beneficial, especially if there is some sort of feedback (not a grade but feedback). That feedback can come from the teacher, another student or even an automated grading program.

As a former band director, I assigned daily practice. I never once thought it would be appropriate for me to require the students to turn in a recording of their practice for me to grade. Instead, I had in-class assignments/assessments that were graded and directly related to the practice assigned.

I would really like to read articles on “homework” that truly distinguish between the two.

oof i feel bad good luck!

thank you guys for the artical because I have to finish an assingment. yes i did cite it but just thanks

thx for the article guys.

Homework is good

I think homework is helpful AND harmful. Sometimes u can’t get sleep bc of homework but it helps u practice for school too so idk.

I agree with this Article. And does anyone know when this was published. I would like to know.

It was published FEb 19, 2019.

Studies have shown that homework improved student achievement in terms of improved grades, test results, and the likelihood to attend college.

i think homework can help kids but at the same time not help kids

This article is so out of touch with majority of homes it would be laughable if it wasn’t so incredibly sad.

There is no value to homework all it does is add stress to already stressed homes. Parents or adults magically having the time or energy to shepherd kids through homework is dome sort of 1950’s fantasy.

What lala land do these teachers live in?

Homework gives noting to the kid

Homework is Bad

homework is bad.

why do kids even have homework?

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1. Do your  homework !

2. Do your  homework  now.

3. What is the  homework ?

4. Turn in your  homework .

5. When is the  homework  for?

6. I have to do my  homework .

7. Did you do your  homework ?

8. Had she done her  homework ?

9. He does his  homework  well.

10. We were not doing  homework .

11. Do your  homework  right away.

12. Have you done your  homework ?

13. I have completed my  homework .

14. Did the teacher give  homework ?

15. They rarely do their  homework .

16. They did their  homework  nicely.

17. I finished my  homework  on time.

18. I finished my  homework  at 8 pm.

19. I do my  homework  during the day.

20. He is trying to do her  homework .

21. Have you just finished  homework ?

22. He is trying to do his  homework .

23. Sandra has finished her  homework .

24. Has Celine finished her  homework ?

25. You did your  homework  too, right?

26. I helped my son with his  homework .

27. I haven’t finished my  homework  yet.

28. My friend helped me do my  homework .

29. She had not completed her  homework .

30. I have not finished my  homework  yet

31. Why aren’t you doing your  homework ?

32. I have not finished my  homework  yet.

33. Alex reminded us to do our  homework .

34. She have just finished her  homework .

35. I am doing my  homework  at the moment.

36. My teacher gave me math  homework  today.

37. Finish your  homework  and come to us now.

38. I have to finish my  homework  on Thursday.

39. This is Sherry. She is doing her  homework .

40. Unfortunately, I left my  homework  at home.

41. She had done her  homework  so she was happy.

42. There was little time to finish my  homework .

43. She had not done her  homework  so she was sad.

44. By that time I will have finished my  homework .

45. They collaborated and finished their  homework .

46. 42.Don’t forget to do the  homework  I gave you.

47. It was great that she onset doing her  homework .

48. My teacher said I have to bend it for  homework .

49. I played game after I had finished my  homework .

50. It was great that she started doing her  homework .

51. The teacher will give a lot of  homework  tomorrow.

52. The teacher assigned us ten problems for  homework .

53. Unless my son finish his  homework , He can’t go out.

54. You can’t play game any more until you do your  homework !

55. She is tired; nevertheless, She must finish her  homework .

56. He won’t have finished his  homework  by the time we get home.

57. While I am finishing my  homework , she is going to make dinner.

58. I will not done my  homework  tomorrow if you are not going to help me.

59. He is the best student in school but he doesn’t do  homework s on time.

60. I have a lot of  homework  these days, but I don’t have any lessons to study.

61. He is the best student in school. However, he doesn’t do  homework s on time.

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