eyewitness

«eyewitness» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who saw something happen with their own eyes… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an eyewitness, eyewitnesses); adjective (eyewitness account)

meaning for a pupil

1) An eyewitness is a person who saw something happen with their own eyes, like an accident or crime. tree →

2) An eyewitness account is a report by someone who was there. tree →

sense in the lessons

History lessons (eyewitness accounts as primary sources), news reports, crime stories, and science of memory (eyewitnesses can remember wrongly). Phrases: eyewitness account, according to eyewitnesses.

examples

• An eyewitness saw the car go through the red light. tree →
• We read an eyewitness account of the Great Fire of London. tree →
• Eyewitnesses said the dog ran into the shop. tree →
• The police asked for eyewitnesses to come forward. tree →
• Samuel Pepys wrote as an eyewitness to the fire. tree →
• Even honest eyewitnesses can make mistakes. tree →

note

Plural eyewitnesses. Eyewitness evidence is a primary source but not always reliable: memory changes, and people see from one angle. Compare several accounts.

In the corpora

• Pliny the Younger wrote an eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption, and tall ash-column eruptions are now called Plinian.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «eyewitness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.