carry

«carry» in Mova's school dictionary: to hold something and take it with you — 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 (carry, carries, carried, carrying)

meaning for a pupil

1) To carry is to hold something and take it with you. tree →

2) To carry is to be able to hold or take a load: «The bus carries 40 people». tree →

3) In adding, to carry is to move a ten to the next place. tree →

4) To carry on is to keep going. tree →

sense in the lessons

how much something can hold or take; also carrying in addition; in science, blood carries oxygen; phrases «carry on», «carry out» (do), «carry over», «get carried away» (too excited)

examples

• Each truck can carry 2 tons. tree →
• She carries 4 bags. tree →
• How many trips to carry 30 boxes, 5 at a time? tree →
• In 28 + 15 you carry 1 ten. tree →
• Can you help me carry the shopping? tree →
• Carry on reading quietly. tree →
• The wind carried the kite away. tree →
• Blood carries oxygen around your body. tree →
• We carried out the experiment. tree →
• Don't get carried away with the glitter! tree →

note

A limit per trip: total ÷ per trip, rounded up. Trap: a last trip with fewer is still a trip. Spelling: carry → carries, carried (y to i). Safety: lift heavy things with bent knees.

In the corpora

• The silent treatment usually makes things worse, and children should not have to carry messages between upset grown-ups.
• Some restaurants use simple robots, guided by sensors, to carry food to tables.
• If you lose your place, staying calm and carrying on usually works, and school audiences are friendly.
• Switching to a new hobby after giving the old one a fair try is a sensible choice, and skills like rhythm carry over.
• Donkeys bray to call other donkeys, and the sound can carry about 3 kilometres across their desert homeland.

Trees and pragmatics

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