chapter
part of speech
noun (chapter, chapters)
meaning for a pupil
1) A chapter is one part of a book; a book is divided into chapters. tree →
2) A chapter can be a part or a time in someone's life or in history: «a new chapter». tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah is divided into chapters, and the divisions differ between editions and translations. In the primary lessons: a part of a book that holds pages: chapters × pages in each = pages; at school children read chapter books; phrases: «chapter one», «chapter book», «the next chapter», «a new chapter»
examples
- 35) Compare Chapter I, Section 3, Note, 8. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- Finished; the end (of a book or chapter.) (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- == Chapter 2 == [2:1] There are twenty-two letters, stamina. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- The book has 12 chapters. tree →
- Each chapter has 15 pages. tree →
- She read 3 chapters a day. tree →
- How many pages are in the whole book? tree →
- Mum reads us a chapter every night. tree →
- Chapter 1 begins on page 5. tree →
- The last chapter was the most exciting. tree →
- Moving to a new school was a new chapter for Ben. tree →
note
Countable: a chapter, chapters. A group of pages: chapters × pages in each = pages. Trap: the number of chapters is not the number of pages; if the pages count is given directly, chapters may be a distractor.
In the corpora
- The chapter ends: «Toad went up to Town by an early train this morning.
- The chapter's name is «Wayfarers All»: wayfarers are travellers on foot, people on their way somewhere.
- In chapter VI Badger had said almost the same: «The hour has come!...
- A cliffhanger ends a chapter or episode at a tense moment, so the reader must read on.
- Aisha said she'd read her chapter about a dragon; the book was about a pony.
Trees and pragmatics
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