part of speech
noun (email, emails); verb (email, emails, emailed, emailing)
meaning for a pupil
1) An email is a message sent from one computer or phone to another over the internet. tree →
2) Email is the system for sending such messages. tree →
3) To email is to send an email. tree →
sense in the lessons
a thing counted: emails received or sent in the morning, afternoon or evening; «in the day» adds the parts; phrases: «send an email», «get an email», «email address», «reply to an email»
examples
- Jack received 6 emails in the morning. tree →
- He got 3 emails in the afternoon. tree →
- How many emails did he get in the day? tree →
- How many more emails in the morning than in the evening? tree →
- I emailed my teacher my project. tree →
- Gran sends me an email every week. tree →
- Check the email address before you press send. tree →
- Never open an email from someone you don't know. tree →
note
Countable: an email, emails. Also written e-mail. A thing counted, often split by time of day. «in the day» adds the parts. Trap: letters and emails are counted apart. Safety: do not share passwords in emails.
In the corpora
- AI helps scammers write perfect emails, so good spelling is no longer proof a message is real.
- AI can sort emails at work and save time, but it sometimes puts important ones in the wrong pile.
- Spam filters use AI to spot junk and scam emails, but some real emails end up in the spam folder too.
- "Per my last email" means "you did not read my email properly"; it is office jargon.
- An email or message is fine to thank someone for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «email» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.