concert
part of speech
noun (concert, concerts)
meaning for a pupil
1) A concert is a show where people play music or sing for an audience. tree →
2) «In concert» also means working together. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: an event with tickets, seats, people attending or a length of time; tickets × price gives money; start and end times; school: the school concert, the winter concert, the choir; everyday life: going to a concert with family; safety: stay with your adult in a crowd
examples
- 500 people came to the concert. tree →
- A concert ticket costs $12. tree →
- The concert lasted 2 hours. tree →
- They sold 80 tickets for the school concert. tree →
- Our class sang at the winter concert. tree →
- The concert starts at 7 o'clock. tree →
- The band played at an outdoor concert. tree →
- We clapped at the end of the concert. tree →
- And she was invited to the concert in the evening--the family concert; great enthusiasm and thin voices; we know the sort of thing. tree →
note
A word of the story; the numbers are tickets, people, prices or time. Trap: count adults and children tickets apart when they cost different amounts. Length = end time − start time.
In the corpora
- The bandura is a Ukrainian plucked string instrument; modern concert banduras have around 55 to 65 strings.
- Pop and rock concerts are loud and crowded; big festivals run for several days with many stages, and many fans wear earplugs.
- Many musicians earn more from concerts and merch than from streams.
- Before a concert the orchestra tunes to one note, usually an A played by the oboe, so everyone plays in tune together.
- When the Hatter sang at the concert, the Queen «bawled out» (shouted) «He's murdering the time!
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «concert» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.