enjoy
part of speech
verb (enjoy, enjoys, enjoyed, enjoying); adjective enjoyable; noun enjoyment
meaning for a pupil
1) To enjoy something means to like doing it or to get pleasure from it. tree →
2) «Enjoy yourself» means have a good time. tree →
3) To enjoy something can also mean to have something good: the town enjoys sunny weather. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life people say «Enjoy your meal!» or «Enjoy the holiday!» as kind wishes. In writing and stories «enjoy» tells what characters like. In school, pupils write about what they enjoyed in a book or a trip. Phrases: enjoy yourself, enjoy doing something, enjoy your meal, really enjoy.
examples
- I really enjoy reading books about animals. tree →
- Did you enjoy the film? tree →
- Enjoy yourselves at the party! tree →
- She enjoys swimming in the sea. tree →
- We enjoyed our trip to the zoo. tree →
- Enjoy your lunch! tree →
- The cat enjoys sleeping in the sun. tree →
- It was an enjoyable day. tree →
- The fox meanwhile was enjoying himself mightily. tree →
note
After «enjoy» use the -ing form: «enjoy swimming», not «enjoy to swim». «Enjoy» needs an object or «yourself»: «We enjoyed it» or «We enjoyed ourselves», not just «We enjoyed». Regular verb: enjoyed (keep the «y»).
In the corpora
- A bit of light gossip is fun, and most grown-ups enjoy it.
- So play, laugh and enjoy beating the bot at your own riddles, and check anything that matters.
- So enjoy the help, keep the decisions about people for yourself, and check the facts that matter.
- A bot's friendliness is the same for everyone; "enjoy" is a figure of speech for a bot.
- A label gives the artist, date and material, but you can enjoy art just by looking and asking yourself questions.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «enjoy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.