saw
part of speech
verb past (see, sees, saw, seen, seeing); noun (a saw, saws); verb (saw, saws, sawed, sawn or sawed, sawing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Saw is the past form of see: «I saw a bird.» tree →
2) A saw is a tool with a sharp toothed blade for cutting wood or metal. tree →
3) To saw is to cut with a saw. tree →
4) An old saying is sometimes called a saw. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: usually the story verb «saw» (counted things seen, often added); sometimes a tool that cuts boards into pieces (cuts = pieces − 1). In D&T and building: hand saws, safety goggles. In science: a seesaw is a lever. In stories: «I saw it with my own eyes».
examples
- And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?' (Torah GEN.20.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. (Writings DAN.2.31, JPS 1917) tree →
- When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion. (Writings PSA.50.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- The ram which thou sawest having the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. (Writings DAN.8.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- She saw 12 birds in the park. tree →
- He saw 5 cars and 3 buses. tree →
- He used a saw to cut the board into 4 pieces. tree →
- How many animals did they see in all? tree →
- I saw a rainbow after the rain. tree →
- Dad sawed the branch off the tree. tree →
- Wear goggles when you use a saw. tree →
- We saw a film at the cinema last night. tree →
- The children played on the seesaw. tree →
- Then there was a great deal of hewing and sawing, and at last the three-decker was built. tree →
note
As «saw» (see) it brings the things counted, often added. As a tool, cutting into pieces leads to division. Trap: cuts = pieces − 1. Forms of see: see, saw, seen («I have seen», not «I have saw»). Safety: saws are sharp; use them only with an adult.
In the corpora
- And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
- And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good.
- that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives, whomsoever they chose.
- And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
- And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «saw» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.