felt

«felt» in Mova's school dictionary: the past of «feel»: you felt happy, you felt the soft fur — 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

verb (past and past participle of feel: feel, feels, felt, feeling); noun (felt — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Felt is the past of «feel»: you felt happy, you felt the soft fur. tree →

2) Felt is a thick, soft cloth made by pressing wool or other fibres together. tree →

3) «Felt-tip pen» is a pen with a soft tip of this material. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories «felt» tells the reader about a character's emotions or what they touched; in art and craft lessons you cut and glue felt shapes. Phrases: «felt sorry for», «felt like», «felt better», «felt-tip pen».

examples

• I felt very happy on my birthday. tree →
• She felt the warm sand under her feet. tree →
• He felt sorry for the lost puppy. tree →
• We made puppets out of felt. tree →
• Colour the picture with felt-tip pens. tree →
• I felt like going home. tree →
• After a rest, she felt better. tree →
• Of course he felt quite hopeless. tree →

note

Irregular: feel – felt – felt. Not «feeled». «Felt like» can mean «wanted to» (I felt like a snack) or «seemed like» (it felt like a dream). Felt the cloth is uncountable.

In the corpora

• Whether that counts as real understanding is something scientists still argue about, but it has never felt sad in a body.
• But you lived them in words: you learned what happened, what people felt and what was wise.
• That is honest; claiming you felt the waves would not be.
• Even the colours in black felt-tip ink can be pulled apart on wet kitchen paper.
• People use euphemisms about the body and illness to be polite, to protect someone's feelings, or because a subject felt embarrassing.

Trees and pragmatics

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