diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d2b64528e..a8bddc012 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 - #391, #396 Extract method similar no longer replace the left-hand side of assignment (@climbus)
 - #303 Fix inlining into f-string containing quote characters (@lieryan)
 - Added scopes for comprehension expressions as part of #293 (@climbus)
+- Added support for checking scopes by offset as part of #293 (@climbus)
 - #423 Fix `AttributeError: '_ExpressionVisitor' object has no attribute 'defineds'` (@lieryan)
 - #398, #104 Fix parsing of nested `with` statement/context manager (@climbus)
 - #391, #376 Fix improper replacement when extracting attribute access expression with `similar=True` (@climbus)
diff --git a/rope/base/pyscopes.py b/rope/base/pyscopes.py
index 83c644743..387f53648 100644
--- a/rope/base/pyscopes.py
+++ b/rope/base/pyscopes.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import rope.base.codeanalyze
 import rope.base.pynames
 from rope.base import ast, exceptions, utils
+from rope.refactor import patchedast
 
 
 class Scope(object):
@@ -100,6 +101,20 @@ def get_logical_end(self):
     def get_kind(self):
         pass
 
+    @utils.saveit
+    def get_region(self):
+        node = patchedast.patch_ast(
+            self.pyobject.get_ast(), self.pyobject.get_module().source_code
+        )
+        region = patchedast.node_region(node)
+        return region
+
+    def in_region(self, offset):
+        "Checks if offset is in scope region"
+
+        region = self.get_region()
+        return region[0] < offset < region[1]
+
 
 class GlobalScope(Scope):
     def __init__(self, pycore, module):
@@ -289,8 +304,14 @@ def _is_empty_line(self, lineno):
     def _get_body_indents(self, scope):
         return self.get_indents(scope.get_body_start())
 
-    def get_holding_scope_for_offset(self, scope, offset):
-        return self.get_holding_scope(scope, self.lines.get_line_number(offset))
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_holding_scope_for_offset(scope, offset):
+        for inner_scope in scope.get_scopes():
+            if inner_scope.in_region(offset):
+                return _HoldingScopeFinder.get_holding_scope_for_offset(
+                    inner_scope, offset
+                )
+        return scope
 
     def find_scope_end(self, scope):
         if not scope.parent:
diff --git a/ropetest/pyscopestest.py b/ropetest/pyscopestest.py
index 2e76ad287..0003be260 100644
--- a/ropetest/pyscopestest.py
+++ b/ropetest/pyscopestest.py
@@ -310,6 +310,24 @@ def test_get_inner_scope_for_staticmethods(self):
         f_in_c = c_scope.get_scopes()[0]
         self.assertEqual(f_in_c, scope.get_inner_scope_for_line(4))
 
+    def test_get_scope_for_offset_for_comprehension(self):
+        scope = libutils.get_string_scope(self.project, "a = [i for i in range(10)]\n")
+        c_scope = scope.get_scopes()[0]
+        self.assertEqual(c_scope, scope.get_inner_scope_for_offset(10))
+        self.assertEqual(scope, scope.get_inner_scope_for_offset(1))
+
+    def test_get_scope_for_offset_for_in_nested_comprehension(self):
+        scope = libutils.get_string_scope(self.project, "[i for i in [j for j in k]]\n")
+        c_scope = scope.get_scopes()[0]
+        self.assertEqual(c_scope, scope.get_inner_scope_for_offset(5))
+        inner_scope = c_scope.get_scopes()[0]
+        self.assertEqual(inner_scope, scope.get_inner_scope_for_offset(15))
+
+    def test_get_scope_for_offset_for_scope_with_indent(self):
+        scope = libutils.get_string_scope(self.project, "def f(a):\n" "    print(a)\n")
+        inner_scope = scope.get_scopes()[0]
+        self.assertEqual(inner_scope, scope.get_inner_scope_for_offset(10))
+
     def test_getting_overwritten_scopes(self):
         scope = libutils.get_string_scope(
             self.project, "def f():\n    pass\ndef f():\n    pass\n"