beginning

«beginning» in Mova's school dictionary: the first part or the start of something — 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

noun (beginning, beginnings); verb (begin, begins, began, begun, beginning)

meaning for a pupil

1) The beginning is the first part or the start of something. tree →

2) Beginning is also the -ing form of begin: «It is beginning to rain». tree →

sense in the lessons

the start of the story, before anything happened: «at first», «at the start», «in the beginning» ask for the count before the events; a story has a beginning, a middle and an end; phrases: «in the beginning», «at the beginning of», «from beginning to end», «beginning to»

examples

• How many cards did Ben have in the beginning? tree →
• In the beginning, there were 15 birds on the tree. tree →
• At the beginning of the day, Zoe had 20 cents. tree →
• Every story has a beginning, a middle and an end. tree →
• Read the book from beginning to end. tree →
• It is beginning to snow! tree →
• At the beginning of the year, we got new books. tree →
• The beginning of the film was scary. tree →
• The apples were beginning to roast. tree →

note

Spelling: double n (beginning). «at first», «at the start», «in the beginning» ask for the count before the events. Trap: undo the changes to find it: add back what went away, take away what came.

In the corpora

• The Caterpillar says "It is wrong from beginning to end."
• The King: «Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.»
• In longer words, double only if the stress falls on the last syllable: begin, beginning; but garden, gardening.
• The dove and the olive branch became symbols of peace and new beginnings.
• IN THE beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Trees and pragmatics

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