belong

«belong» in Mova's school dictionary: to be owned by them — 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 (belong, belongs, belonged, belonging)

meaning for a pupil

1) To belong to someone is to be owned by them. tree →

2) To belong to a group is to be a member of it. tree →

3) To belong is to be in the right place: «The milk belongs in the fridge». tree →

4) To belong is to feel at home and welcome. tree →

sense in the lessons

tells whose things they are, or which group something is part of; in sorting and sets, which group a thing belongs to; phrases «belong to», «belongings» (things you own), «feel like you belong»

examples

• 12 of the books belong to Sam. tree →
• The rest belong to his sister. tree →
• How many cards belong to Ana? tree →
• 8 players belong to the chess club. tree →
• Who does this coat belong to? tree →
• The cups belong in the top cupboard. tree →
• A whale belongs to the mammal group. tree →
• Take all your belongings off the bus. tree →
• Everyone should feel they belong in our class. tree →
• Which shape does not belong? tree →

note

Splits a total into parts by owner. Trap: «the rest belong to» means total minus the named part. «Belongings» means the things you own.

In the corpora

• Rights belong to everyone, and freedom stops where it starts to hurt others.
• Serious accusations belong to courts and investigations, not to jokes in the playground.
• Those stories belong to the person, and only they should share them.
• Bots can invent phone numbers and addresses that belong to nobody, or to a stranger.
• The families and birthdays in your lessons belong to characters, not to you; you have no grandma of your own.

Trees and pragmatics

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