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to submit homework

to submit homework

1.6
To hand in homework to a teacher or online for grading
  • phrasal verb
  • /səbˈmɪt ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/
translation icon : entregar la tarea
  • The students decided to submit homework electronically to save time and effort.
  • submitting homework assignments
  • students submitting homework

Examples

  • For instance, Rayburn and Rayburn (1999) demonstrate that students who systematically submit homework perform better on exams.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The second section (STD) was a small day class (with a capacity of 35 students) that met twice a week and used traditional "paper and pencil" methods for submitting exams and all homework assignments.

    Academic text (2016)
  • In contrast, Chulkov (2006) found that only 39% of his sample submitted homework for up to 10% of the final grade.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Perhaps a mitigating feature could be that students submitting "one shot" written homework for grading take their assignment more seriously.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The MyStatLab system developed by Pearson Higher Education was used in our current study for submitting exams and homework assignments.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The third section (SMD) was a small day class that met twice a week and used traditional "paper and pencil" methods for exams, but the MyStatLab system for submitting all homework assignments.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The fourth section (SMN) was a small night class that met once a week and used traditional "paper and pencil" methods for exams, but the MyStatLab system for submitting all homework assignments.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The response variable in the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was intended to be an outcome measure of overall course performance, a weighted average of three exams (30% each) and an average of nine submitted homework assignments (10%).

    Academic text (2016)
  • Yourstone, Kraye, and Albaum (2010) found that too many students having unlimited attempts use a less-than-optimal "shotgun" approach to submitting online homework.

    Academic text (2016)
  • After finishing the project, I will submit homework to my teacher for grading.

Synonyms

to submit
vsto submit homework
  • Formal
325 3.7

To give a form or application for someone to consider

is specific to handing assignments to an instructor for grading

Surface Forms

submit homework infinitive
submitted homework past participle
submitting homework present participle
submits homework third person singular

Morphology

submit + homework

The meaning 'to hand in or present assignments' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'submit' (to hand over for review) with 'homework' (tasks assigned to students), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the MWE. This is a standard verb + noun classroom collocation that follows common compositional patterns and is cross-linguistically familiar in educational contexts.

Etymology

Submit homework comes from the simple act of giving your work to the person in charge. To submit means to hand something over, so when you give your homework to a teacher you are handing it in to be checked and 'for grading'.