eighty
part of speech
number (eighty, 80)
meaning for a pupil
Eighty is the number 80, eight tens. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: a number of things counted; 80 = 8 × 10 = 4 × 20; percent (80 percent is 80 out of 100); everyday life: eighty pages, eighty miles, Grandma turned eighty
examples
- The book has eighty pages. tree →
- Eighty people came. tree →
- He drove eighty miles. tree →
- Eighty is ten times eight. tree →
- My great-grandmother is eighty years old. tree →
- Eighty minus twenty is sixty. tree →
- She got eighty percent on the test. tree →
- For the last eighty years I have dug up the ground here without discovering anything. tree →
note
A number written as a word: 80. Trap: do not mix up eighty (80) and eighteen (18); the stress is on the start: EIGH-ty. No hyphen alone; «eighty-one» has a hyphen.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «eighty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.