assistant
part of speech
noun (an assistant, assistants); adjective (assistant — assistant head teacher)
meaning for a pupil
1) A person whose job is to help someone else do their work. tree →
2) A shop assistant is a person who serves customers in a shop. tree →
3) A computer program that helps you, such as a voice assistant. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school, a teaching assistant helps the teacher and the pupils. In shops, you ask a shop assistant for help. In technology, a digital assistant answers questions; be careful what personal information you tell it. Phrases: teaching assistant, shop assistant, personal assistant, voice assistant, assistant coach.
examples
- Our teaching assistant helps me with reading. tree →
- Ask the shop assistant where the shoes are. tree →
- The doctor's assistant called my name. tree →
- The assistant coach set up the cones. tree →
- A voice assistant can tell you the weather. tree →
- The magician's assistant held the hat. tree →
- As they sailed on, they came by chance to the place where the boatman's assistant lived, at a little distance from the bank of the river. tree →
note
Use "an": an assistant. Countable. Spelling: double s, and it ends "-ant", not "-ent". The verb is "assist" (help) and the noun for help is "assistance".
In the corpora
- Voice assistants can be linked to shopping accounts, so grown-ups should set a PIN for purchases.
- Voice assistants turn sounds into words and then guess what you meant; accents and background noise can confuse them.
- For simple jobs with live data, such as timers and weather, voice assistants are usually useful.
- "Excuse me" is a polite way to get a stranger's attention, like a shop assistant's.
- The teaching assistant or aide helps teach the class and is listened to like a teacher.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «assistant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.