comic

«comic» in Mova's school dictionary: a book or magazine that tells a story with pictures in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (comic, comics); adjective (comic — funny)

meaning for a pupil

1) A comic is a book or magazine that tells a story with pictures in boxes and words in speech bubbles. tree →

2) Comic means funny, making people laugh. tree →

3) A comic is also a person who tells jokes. tree →

4) Comic can also describe something connected with comedy in the theatre, such as a comic mask. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: a thing counted, bought, sold or read; comic books often have prices or pages; English: making a comic strip, speech bubbles; stories: superheroes, a comic moment; everyday life: reading comics at the library

examples

• Leo has 24 comics. tree →
• A comic costs $3. tree →
• She reads 2 comics every day. tree →
• He gave 5 comic books to his brother. tree →
• We made our own comic strip in class. tree →
• The words go in speech bubbles. tree →
• The clown did a comic dance. tree →
• My favourite comic is about a dog. tree →
• THALIA, the muse of Comedy, carries in her right hand a shepherd's crook, and has a comic mask beside her. tree →

note

Just the thing counted; the numbers around it carry the problem. Trap: «comic» and «comic book» are the same item, count them together. «Comical» also means funny.

In the corpora

• Many films are adaptations of books, comics or games, and people argue whether the book or the film is better.
• Comics and graphic novels are real reading: you work out the story from the words and the pictures together.
• Sam, of all people, lends him his best comic.

Trees and pragmatics

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