decide
part of speech
verb (decide, decides, decided, deciding)
meaning for a pupil
1) To decide is to make up your mind, to choose after thinking: I decided to stay. tree →
2) To decide is to settle something, to make the result clear: One goal decided the game. tree →
sense in the lessons
choosing between operations, such as adding or taking away («First decide: coming together or going away?»); in class decide the steps of a problem; in everyday life deciding what to eat or play; in stories a character decides what to do and that moves the plot; noun «decision»
examples
- First decide: are things coming together, or going away? tree →
- Decide what the question asks before you work. tree →
- Tim decides to give 4 cards to Ben. tree →
- We decided to go to the beach. tree →
- I can't decide between pizza and pasta. tree →
- The class voted to decide the name of our fish. tree →
- One goal decided the match. tree →
- She decided to tell the truth. tree →
- So he decided to take a wife. tree →
note
A study rule: decide the direction of change before calculating. No operation clue by itself. Trap: in a story «decides to give 4» is a plan; the count changes when the giving happens. Noun «decision».
In the corpora
- A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job.
- A "For Sale" board means the family has decided to sell the house, and selling usually takes months, not days.
- Disagreeing is normal; talking it through is how couples decide things together.
- It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions.
- A CV is a short, honest document about your skills, results and work, which employers read to decide whom to meet.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «decide» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.