eighth
part of speech
number, adjective and noun (eighth, an eighth, eighths); adverb (eighth)
meaning for a pupil
1) Eighth means number 8 in order, after the seventh. tree →
2) An eighth is one of eight equal parts of something: 1/8. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, an eighth is a fraction: a pizza cut into 8 equal slices gives eighths; 1/8 = 0.125 = 12.5%; two eighths equal one quarter; eight eighths make one whole. In everyday life eighth tells order: the eighth floor, the eighth birthday, came eighth in a race. In music an eighth note (US) is a quaver (UK). Phrases: «the eighth of», «one eighth», «three eighths», «eighth place».
examples
- My sister is having her eighth birthday party. tree →
- We live on the eighth floor. tree →
- Cut the cake into eighths. tree →
- One eighth of 40 is 5. tree →
- Three eighths of the class walk to school. tree →
- He finished eighth in the race. tree →
- August is the eighth month of the year. tree →
- Two eighths equal one quarter. tree →
- So on the eighth day, at five minutes before noon, Nigel got ready. tree →
note
Tricky spelling: eight + h = e-i-g-h-t-h (only one t). Ordinal: 8th. Fraction 1/8 is said «one eighth». Maths: to find an eighth of a number, divide by 8; to find three eighths, divide by 8 then multiply by 3. A bigger bottom number means smaller pieces: 1/8 is smaller than 1/4.
In the corpora
- The Chinese character for the eighth animal can mean goat, sheep or ram, so both are right.
- And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
- And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
- On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:
- On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no manner of servile work;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «eighth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.