garage
part of speech
noun (garage, garages)
meaning for a pupil
1) A garage is a building or a room next to a house where a car is kept. tree →
2) A garage is also a place where cars are fixed, and in the UK and Ireland a place that sells petrol. tree →
3) A parking garage is a big building with levels where many cars park. tree →
4) A garage sale is when a family sells old things in front of their home. tree →
sense in the lessons
A place in the story; it holds cars counted, or has a floor measured; sometimes a garage sale with prices to add. In everyday life: bikes, tools and boxes are kept in the garage. In safety: a running car in a closed garage is dangerous. Phrases: «garage sale», «parking garage», «garage door».
examples
- The garage holds 2 cars. tree →
- A parking garage has 5 levels with 40 cars on each. tree →
- They sold toys at a garage sale for 1 dollar each. tree →
- The garage is 6 metres long. tree →
- Dad keeps our bikes in the garage. tree →
- Mum took the car to the garage because it made a funny noise. tree →
- Close the garage door when you leave. tree →
- We stopped at a garage to fill up with petrol. tree →
note
A place only, unless sizes or cars per level are given: levels × cars per level gives the total. Trap: a garage sale is about money, not cars. Said «GA-rahzh» or «GA-ridge»; both are fine.
In the corpora
- A boy in Ohio was bored at home and climbed onto the garage roof for fun; he slipped off and broke his arm.
- Engines and generators must never run indoors or in a garage, because they make carbon monoxide.
- In a parking garage you stay close to the adult, because it is dark and cars come round corners.
- One afternoon the Station Road boys corner Sam by the garages.
- Josh said he'd tidied the garage; Dad didn't argue, he just went and looked — tidy!
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «garage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.