drove
part of speech
verb (drive, drives, drove, driven, driving); noun (a drove, droves)
meaning for a pupil
1) Drove is the past of drive: yesterday he drove the car. tree →
2) A drove is a group of animals, like cattle or sheep, moving together. tree →
3) «In droves» means in very large numbers. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: travel already done, with miles or kilometers and hours (add the legs, or speed × time); history: drovers moved droves of cattle to market; everyday life: people came in droves to the fair
examples
- He drove 150 miles. tree →
- She drove for 3 hours at 50 miles an hour. tree →
- They drove to the lake and back. tree →
- How far did they drive in all? tree →
- Grandpa drove us to the zoo. tree →
- People came in droves to see the parade. tree →
- A drove of cattle crossed the road. tree →
- One day, he drove to the forest. tree →
note
Past travel: add the legs, or speed × time. Trap: «drove 40 miles more than yesterday» means today = yesterday + 40. «Drove» is the past; «driven» goes with has or had.
In the corpora
- Dad had to leave his shift halfway, lost half a day's pay, and drove Jake home without saying a word.
- «The other one.» Freya was really at the park after dark, and Mum drove there and found her.
- And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
- And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
- And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drove» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.