arrive

«arrive» in Mova's school dictionary: to get to a place at the end of a trip — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (arrive, arrives, arrived, arriving)

meaning for a pupil

1) To arrive is to get to a place at the end of a trip. tree →

2) To arrive is to come or happen: «Spring has arrived». tree →

3) To arrive at an answer is to reach it after thinking. tree →

sense in the lessons

people or things that come and are added; also a time of reaching a place; phrases «arrive at» (a place, an answer), «arrive in» (a city or country), «arrive on time», «arrival»

examples

• 12 guests arrive at the party. tree →
• The train arrives at 3:15. tree →
• 8 more buses arrived. tree →
• If he leaves at 9 and the trip takes 2 hours, when will he arrive? tree →
• We arrived in Sydney at night. tree →
• Please arrive at school on time. tree →
• The parcel arrived this morning. tree →
• Winter arrived early this year. tree →
• We arrived at the answer together. tree →
• The new baby arrived last week. tree →
• The girls arrived just in time. tree →

note

More arriving means add. Trap: with times, the arrival time is the start time plus the length of the trip. Say «arrive at school», «arrive in London», never «arrive to». The noun is «arrival».

In the corpora

• Payday is the day pay arrives in the bank, often once a month, so money is usually lowest just before it.
• Families don't owe the street their news first; when a baby arrives, the kind reply is «congratulations».
• When climates changed, forests shrank and, in some places, people arrived and hunted, so many giants died out.
• Alice arrives at a court of justice.
• He has heard that a new, extra-powerful motor-car is arriving at Toad Hall this very morning.

Trees and pragmatics

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