aspect
part of speech
noun (an aspect, aspects)
meaning for a pupil
1) One part or side of a situation, problem or idea that you can think about. tree →
2) The way something looks or seems from a certain point of view. tree →
3) The direction a building, room or garden faces, such as a south aspect. tree →
4) (grammar) A way a verb shows whether an action is finished, ongoing or repeated, as in "I am reading" versus "I read". tree →
sense in the lessons
In school it appears in essays and science ("consider every aspect of the problem"), in geography (a slope's aspect affects sunlight), and in grammar lessons about verb forms. It tells the reader that something has several parts and one of them is being looked at. Common phrases: "every aspect of", "in all aspects", "one aspect of", "the most important aspect".
examples
- Safety is the most important aspect of the trip. tree →
- We looked at every aspect of the problem before deciding. tree →
- The house has a sunny southern aspect, so the garden is warm. tree →
- One aspect of being a good friend is listening. tree →
- Money was only one aspect of the argument. tree →
- The teacher asked us to write about a different aspect of life in Roman Britain. tree →
- Plants on the north aspect of the hill grow more slowly. tree →
- "I was running" shows the continuous aspect of the verb. tree →
- A desert lay spread out before him, whose aspect made his hair stand on end. tree →
note
Countable noun: an aspect, two aspects; starts with a vowel sound, so "an aspect". Do not confuse with "respect" or "expect". Often followed by "of": "an aspect of the job". In grammar, aspect (finished or ongoing) is different from tense (past, present, future).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «aspect» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.