amazed
part of speech
adjective (amazed); verb form (past of amaze: amaze, amazes, amazed, amazing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Amazed means very surprised, often in a happy way, because something is wonderful or hard to believe. tree →
2) Amazed is also the past form of «amaze»: something amazed you when it surprised you greatly. tree →
sense in the lessons
Very common in stories and in everyday speech to show strong surprise; it tells the reader a character could hardly believe what happened. In science, pupils are «amazed» by experiments. Phrases: «amazed at/by», «amazed that…», «amazed to see», «I'm amazed».
examples
- I was amazed by the magic trick. tree →
- We were amazed to see a whale near the beach. tree →
- She was amazed that she had won the prize. tree →
- The fireworks amazed everyone. tree →
- Dad looked amazed when I tidied my room. tree →
- The class was amazed when the volcano model erupted. tree →
- I'm amazed you finished the puzzle so fast! tree →
- Aladdin was so amazed that he could not say a word. tree →
note
Amazed (how you feel) vs amazing (what causes the feeling): «I was amazed; the show was amazing». Followed by «at», «by», «to + verb», or «that». Stronger than «surprised». Spelling: drop e and add -ed.
In the corpora
- Hooke's book Micrographia amazed readers with huge drawings of fleas and lice.
- And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were amazed; for they saw that evil was come upon them.
- Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye exceeding amazed, saith the LORD.
- They saw, straightway they were amazed; they were affrighted, they hasted away.
- They are amazed, they answer no more; words are departed from them.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «amazed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.