complete
part of speech
verb (complete, completes, completed, completing); adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) To complete something is to finish all of it. tree →
2) Complete means whole, with every part: «a complete set». tree →
3) Complete means total: «a complete surprise». tree →
4) To complete a form is to fill it in. tree →
sense in the lessons
finishing work: homework, problems or a task finished; the completed part is taken from what was to do; «complete the sentence» means fill in the gap; phrases: «complete the table», «complete set», «completely», «complete sentence»
examples
- She completed 12 of the 20 problems. tree →
- He completes 3 puzzles each day. tree →
- How many more pages to complete the book? tree →
- How many problems did she complete in all? tree →
- Complete the table with the missing numbers. tree →
- I need two more cards to complete my set. tree →
- The party was a complete surprise. tree →
- A complete sentence has a subject and a verb. tree →
note
What is completed is a part done; «left to complete» = total − done. With «each day» it is a rate. «completely» means totally.
In the corpora
- Sponsorship means people promise to give money to a charity if someone completes a challenge.
- Roots ending in t or te take -tion: act, action; invent, invention; complete, completion.
- A sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense on its own.
- In a command, the subject «you» is understood, so «Stop.» is a complete sentence.
- After a fronted adverbial, the rest must still be a complete sentence with its own subject and verb.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «complete» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.