amendment

«amendment» in Mova's school dictionary: a small change made to a law, rule, plan or piece of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an amendment, amendments)

meaning for a pupil

1) An amendment is a small change made to a law, rule, plan or piece of writing to correct or improve it. tree →

2) (law, USA) An Amendment is one of the changes added to the United States Constitution, such as the First Amendment about free speech. tree →

sense in the lessons

In politics lessons, parliaments vote on amendments to new laws. In the USA, children learn about the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments. In school writing, an amendment is a correction you make to your work. In formal letters: «with amendments».

examples

• The council made an amendment to the parking rules. tree →
• Parliament voted on the amendment. tree →
• The First Amendment protects free speech in the USA. tree →
• I made a few amendments to my story after reading it again. tree →
• The teacher accepted our amendment to the class rules. tree →
• There are twenty-seven amendments to the US Constitution. tree →
• The amendment changed one word in the law. tree →
• The remaining amendments are listed below. tree →

note

Countable: amendments. Verb: «amend» (to change a little). Do not confuse with «amends»: «make amends» means to do something good to make up for a wrong.

In the corpora

• Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and in 1920 the 19th Amendment gave women the vote.
• The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects a right to keep and bear arms, and Americans argue about what that allows.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «amendment» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.