far

«far» in Mova's school dictionary: a long way away — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb, adjective (far, farther or further, farthest or furthest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Far means a long way away. tree →

2) «How far» asks what the distance is. tree →

3) Far means very much, as in far bigger. tree →

4) «So far» means up to now. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: asks about distance: «how far» means find the distance; «so far» means up to now (an amount done); «far more» in comparisons; science: far-away stars and planets; everyday life and safety: don't go too far from home; phrases: «as far as», «far away», «by far», «far from»

examples

• How far did she walk? tree →
• The school is 3 km far from home. tree →
• How far is it from A to B? tree →
• So far, he has read 40 pages. tree →
• Do not go far from the tent. tree →
• The stars are very far away. tree →
• This book is by far the best. tree →
• The moon is far from Earth. tree →
• The geese were soon far away. tree →

note

«How far» asks for a distance. «So far» means up to now (an amount done). Trap: «so far» gives the part done, not the total. Usually say «3 km from home», not «3 km far from home».

In the corpora

• The answer is worked out on huge computers far away, in buildings called data centres; nobody is typing it.
• Small models use far less energy than very big ones, which is one reason small models are worth making.
• Forced perspective is a camera trick: something close to the camera looks huge and something far away looks tiny.
• Microbes are living things far too small to see; a thousand bacteria in a row would just about stretch across a pinhead.
• Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may feel them through their feet as well as hear them.

Trees and pragmatics

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