verb · academic
classify
/ˈklæsɪfaɪ/CLAS·si·fy
Band 5-6speakingtask2
to arrange or organize things into groups based on shared features
Examples
“Scientists classify animals by their evolutionary relationships.”
“The librarian classified the books by subject.”
“In the survey, respondents were classified into income brackets.”
Band 8 sentence
“In our analysis we classified urban households by income bracket to examine differences in consumption patterns.”
Collocations
- classify as
- classify into
- be classified by
Word family
classify verbclassification nounclassifier nounclassified adjective / past participleclassifiable adjective
Common mistakes
classify to→classify into
classify someone guilty→classify someone as guilty
Say it for a higher band
5sort→6group→7+classify
Synonyms
categorize
sort
Easily confused
sort
“Please sort the papers by date before filing them.”
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