eat
part of speech
verb (eat, eats, ate, eaten, eating)
meaning for a pupil
1) To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it. tree →
2) To eat a meal is to have it: we eat dinner at six. tree →
3) To eat into or eat away something is to slowly use it up or damage it: rust eats away metal. tree →
sense in the lessons
food eaten is gone («Tom ate 1 of them» = subtract); in everyday life healthy eating, meals, «eat up», «eat out» (at a restaurant); in science animals that eat plants (herbivores) and eat meat (carnivores), food chains; in safety do not eat berries you do not know
examples
- I eat three plums from the table. tree →
- There were 9 apples. Tom ate 1 of them. How many apples are left? tree →
- Ravi ate 4 of the 12 grapes. tree →
- We eat lunch at twelve. tree →
- Eat your vegetables; they help you grow. tree →
- Cows eat grass. tree →
- Never eat wild mushrooms or berries without asking an adult. tree →
- Let's eat out tonight. tree →
- "Then eat heartily," said the Barmecide. tree →
note
Eating makes things disappear: subtract. Trap: «how many did he eat» may ask for the part eaten, found from the start and what is left. Past «ate», past participle «eaten»: «I ate», «I have eaten».
In the corpora
- Diabetes is not caused by eating one too many sweets, and with care people with diabetes live normal lives.
- "I'm being good today" about food is just a phrase; eating a biscuit does not make anyone bad.
- Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.
- Some wild mushrooms are deadly poisonous; never eat one because a bot, a website or a friend says it is fine.
- Many sharks are endangered because they grow slowly and have few young, and they keep oceans healthy by eating sick fish.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «eat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.