carefully

«carefully» in Mova's school dictionary: with care, slowly and paying attention so you do not make… — 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

adverb (carefully; adjective careful)

meaning for a pupil

1) Carefully means with care, slowly and paying attention so you do not make mistakes. tree →

2) Carefully means gently, so you do not break or hurt something. tree →

sense in the lessons

a word of the story only; in school, instructions say «read carefully», «check carefully»; in safety, «cross carefully», «handle carefully»

examples

• Read the problem carefully. tree →
• She carefully counted 48 coins. tree →
• He carefully packed 12 glasses. tree →
• Measure carefully to the nearest cm. tree →
• Cross the road carefully. tree →
• Hold the baby bird carefully. tree →
• Listen carefully to the instructions. tree →
• He carefully poured the water into the cup. tree →
• Check your answers carefully. tree →
• She carefully cut along the dotted line. tree →
• They walked carefully through the china country. tree →

note

Carries no clue about the operation. Spelled with double l: «carefully» (careful + ly). The opposite is «carelessly».

In the corpora

• Deliberate practice means working on purpose on the parts you cannot do yet, slowly and carefully.
• So zoos plan carefully which animals should become parents.
• Elephants investigate new things carefully with their trunks and can smell water several kilometres away.
• City pigeons often get string or hair tangled round their toes, which can cut into the foot; wildlife rescuers carefully remove it.
• But scientists must test carefully, because it is easy to see what we hope to see in an animal's answers.

Trees and pragmatics

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