broken

«broken» in Mova's school dictionary: damaged, or in pieces — 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

adjective (broken); verb (break, breaks, broke, broken, breaking — broken is the past participle)

meaning for a pupil

1) Broken means damaged, or in pieces. tree →

2) Broken means not working: «The TV is broken». tree →

3) A broken promise is one that was not kept. tree →

4) Broken English is spoken with many mistakes. tree →

5) A broken bone is a cracked bone. tree →

sense in the lessons

things that cannot be used and are taken away from a total; in everyday safety, broken glass; phrases «broken arm», «broken promise», «broken home», «broken line» (a dashed line)

examples

• 4 of the 24 eggs were broken. tree →
• He has 10 crayons; 3 are broken. tree →
• How many plates are not broken? tree →
• The broken stick was cut into 3 pieces. tree →
• She has a broken arm. tree →
• The window was broken by a ball. tree →
• My watch is broken. tree →
• Don't touch broken glass, tell an adult. tree →
• He felt sad about the broken promise. tree →
• Draw a broken line between the points. tree →
• And now my heart is broken." tree →

note

Broken ones are taken away from the good ones. Trap: broken pieces of one thing may be more than one. Say «it is broken» or «it broke», not «it is broke». Safety: never pick up broken glass with bare hands.

In the corpora

• Saving means putting money aside now for something bigger later, or for emergencies like a broken boiler.
• Ollie gasps, "What's broken?" Dad smiles: "Nothing's broken, bud.
• Bones are alive, with blood vessels and cells that rebuild them, so a broken bone can heal.
• A broken growth plate needs a doctor's care, because if it heals badly that bone may grow less.
• I've only broken out of the strongest prison in England, that's all!»

Trees and pragmatics

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