girl

«girl» in Mova's school dictionary: a female child or a young woman — 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

noun (girl, girls)

meaning for a pupil

A girl is a female child or a young woman. tree →

sense in the lessons

people counted in a class or group, often next to boys; girls + boys = children; phrases: «a little girl», «girls and boys», «schoolgirl», «the girls' team»

examples

• There are 16 girls and 14 boys in the class. tree →
• Each girl brought 2 pencils. tree →
• How many more girls than boys? tree →
• The girls sold 40 tickets. tree →
• The girl in the red coat is my cousin. tree →
• My aunt has two girls and a boy. tree →
• The girls' team won the relay. tree →
• When Gran was a girl, there were no phones. tree →
• The little girl was called Karen. tree →

note

Plural: girls. Possessive: girl's (one girl), girls' (many girls). A thing counted. Girls + boys = children. Trap: «how many more girls than boys» is a difference.

In the corpora

• Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys.
• She whispers to her mum that the girls watched a scary film and she lay awake till three, listening to every creak.
• A bot has no body, so it is neither a boy nor a girl; a name and voice are design choices.
• Warmer sand gives more girl hatchlings and cooler sand more boys, and bright beach lights can lead hatchlings the wrong way.
• Ah, that's the great puzzle!", and thinks of girls her age she might have been changed into.

Trees and pragmatics

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