exciting
part of speech
adjective (exciting, more exciting, most exciting); verb form (excite, excites, excited, exciting)
meaning for a pupil
1) Exciting means making you feel very happy and eager, wanting to know what happens next. tree →
2) Something exciting is new, fun or full of action. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life, birthdays, holidays and trips are exciting. In writing lessons, children build exciting openings and use exciting verbs; an exciting story has a problem and suspense. Phrases: an exciting adventure, how exciting, exciting news, really exciting.
examples
- Going to the beach tomorrow is so exciting! tree →
- The football match was really exciting. tree →
- We have some exciting news: a new puppy! tree →
- The book has an exciting ending. tree →
- It was exciting to see a real rocket launch. tree →
- What an exciting day at the science museum! tree →
- The last minute of the race was the most exciting. tree →
- Write an exciting opening for your story. tree →
- "Now comes the exciting part, little Anna. tree →
note
Exciting vs excited: a thing is exciting; a person feels excited. «The trip was exciting, so I was excited.» Exciting is the opposite of boring.
In the corpora
- Documentary shows about real hospitals film real patients who agreed; they show the exciting moments chosen from hundreds of hours.
- Trailers show the most exciting or scary bits squeezed together, so a trailer can feel scarier than the whole film.
- Some exciting claims are proven, others are still argued about, and good science says which is which.
- Bright screens and exciting games keep the brain alert and can delay melatonin, the sleepy hormone that rises when it gets dark.
- Films choose the most exciting moments, so animals seem busier than they really are.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «exciting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.