again
part of speech
adverb
meaning for a pupil
1) Again means one more time, once more. tree →
2) Again means back to how it was before: she was well again. tree →
3) In «again and again» it means many times over. tree →
sense in the lessons
repeating the same addition, which is the idea of multiplying («4 + 4 + 4 … again and again»); in class «try again», «say it again», «read it again»; in everyday life «see you again», «never again», «here we go again»; in stories something happening again builds a pattern
examples
- And again she bore his brother Abel. (Torah GEN.4.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob. (Torah GEN.30.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man; (Torah GEN.43.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- I will seek it yet again.' (Writings PRO.23.35, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the LORD called yet again Samuel. (Prophets 1SA.3.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. (Prophets 1SA.23.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- Multiplying is adding the same number again and again: 4 + 4 + 4 = 12. tree →
- Lena reads 5 pages, then 5 pages again, and again. tree →
- Tom saves 3 coins on Monday and again on Tuesday. tree →
- Not quite: try again. tree →
- Can you say that again, please? tree →
- After the rain the sun came out again. tree →
- The baby woke up again and again in the night. tree →
- I hope we can play together again soon. tree →
- The hateful telling broke out again. tree →
note
«again and again» with the same number points to multiplying (repeated equal adding). Trap: «again» once just repeats one amount; count how many times it happens in all (the first time plus the times «again»). Spelling: «again», pronounced «a-GEN».
In the corpora
- And again she bore his brother Abel.
- And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
- And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.
- And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
- And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «again» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.