donate
part of speech
verb (donate, donates, donated, donating)
meaning for a pupil
1) To donate is to give money, things or time to help people, a charity or a school, without being paid back. tree →
2) To donate blood or an organ is to let doctors take it so it can save someone else. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and school, children donate old toys, books, clothes and food to food banks, charity shops and appeals; adults donate blood. It tells the reader someone gives freely to help. Phrases: «donate to charity», «donate money», «donate blood», «make a donation».
examples
- Our class donated tins of food to the food bank. tree →
- Mum donates blood twice a year. tree →
- I donated my old bike to a younger cousin. tree →
- The shop donated a prize for the school raffle. tree →
- People donated money to help the families after the flood. tree →
- Can we donate these clothes that are too small? tree →
- Each pupil donated two dollars, so the class raised forty dollars. tree →
note
Regular verb: donated, donating. The noun is «donation»; the person is a «donor». You donate something TO someone: «donate books to the library», not «donate the library books» (that means something else). In maths problems donating means the giver has less and the receiver has more by the same amount.
In the corpora
- A charity is a group that helps people or animals; to donate is to give money to help.
- A charity shop sells donated things and gives the money to a good cause.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «donate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.