Vocabulary
Hello everyone,
Can I use the verb "weigh" instead of "evaluate" and "assess" as follows?
The teacher weighed her students.
Or must it be as follows?
The teacher weighed her students' grade.
Regards,
JA
Top answer
You can only use 'weighed her students' to mean she put them (one at a time) on the scales to see how heavy they were. 'She weighed her students' grade' has no meaning.
- You can only use 'weighed her students' to mean she put them (one at a time) on the scales to see how heavy they were.
- 'She weighed her students' grade' has no meaning.
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You can only use 'weighed her students' to mean she put them (one at a time) on the scales to see how heavy they were.
'She weighed her students' grade' has no meaning.
0No - 'weighed' tends to literally be about the weight of something. However, 'weighed up' is more appropriate to your idea although I still don't think it'll work.
You can 'weigh up' the options or consider them, but I'm not really happy with the use of it in terms of assessing grades. I guess you could, at a pinch, weigh up the students' grades in order to see whether they are good en
0Weigh can be used in the sense of to assess the nature or importance of, especially with a view to a decision or action and is usually used with against in order to form a comparison in order to judge which of two things is more important: I weighed his enthusiasm against his lack of experience.
The verb, in this usage, almost never takes a person as the dir
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