drink
part of speech
verb (drink, drinks, drank, drunk, drinking); noun (a drink, drinks)
meaning for a pupil
1) To drink is to take water, milk, juice or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it. tree →
2) A drink is something you drink, or an amount of it. tree →
3) For grown-ups, «to drink» can mean to drink alcohol. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: liquids used up (subtract) or drinks bought and sold; a rate per day multiplies over days; liters and milliliters; science: the body needs water, plants drink through their roots; everyday life and safety: drink water when you play sport, never drink from bottles you do not know
examples
- She drinks 2 glasses of milk a day. tree →
- He drank 300 ml of juice. tree →
- Each drink costs $2. tree →
- How much water is left after he drinks 1 liter? tree →
- Drink water after running. tree →
- Can I have a drink, please? tree →
- Never drink anything from an unknown bottle. tree →
- Plants drink water through their roots. tree →
- Quick, give me something to drink. tree →
note
Drinking takes away from the amount; a rate per day multiplies over days. Trap: watch liters and milliliters (1 liter = 1000 ml). Forms: drink, drank (yesterday), have drunk.
In the corpora
- When a grown-up drinks too much, it is never the child's fault and never the child's job to fix.
- Coffee contains caffeine, which makes the brain feel more awake; people who drink it every morning feel slow and grumpy without it.
- Drinking and driving is against the law and dangerous.
- A hangover is how the body feels the day after drinking too much alcohol: headache, tiredness, thirst and feeling sick.
- Drink, they'll be saying." Mum gently: "His family haven't said why, Mam.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drink» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.