beautiful
part of speech
adjective (beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful)
meaning for a pupil
1) Beautiful means very pleasant to look at, hear or experience. tree →
2) Beautiful can mean very good or kind, as in a beautiful thing to do. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and stories, beautiful describes nature, music, people, places and kind actions. In writing lessons pupils learn to use stronger or more exact words too (stunning, lovely, graceful). Phrases: a beautiful day, beautifully done, beautiful music.
examples
- What a beautiful sunset! tree →
- The garden is beautiful in spring. tree →
- She sang a beautiful song. tree →
- The princess wore a beautiful dress. tree →
- It was a beautiful day for a picnic. tree →
- Helping your friend was a beautiful thing to do. tree →
- Your handwriting is beautifully neat. tree →
- The beach was beautiful, with white sand and blue water. tree →
- It was very beautiful to behold. tree →
note
Spelling trap: b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l, with one l at the end (-ful). Comparatives: more beautiful, most beautiful (not beautifuller). Adverb: beautifully (double l). Noun: beauty. Real beauty is not only about looks; people are beautiful in many ways.
In the corpora
- Art can aim to be beautiful, but also to shock, ask questions, make people laugh or remember something.
- Diatoms are single-celled algae with glass shells in beautiful patterns, and they make a big share of the oxygen we breathe.
- Toad: «Me complain of that beautiful, that heavenly vision ... that swan, that sunbeam, that thunderbolt! ...
- The Cat flatters her: she is wise and beautiful and should not be cruel.
- The Cat «pretended to be sorry» and said «You are very wise and very beautiful.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «beautiful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.