grandparent
part of speech
noun (grandparent, grandparents)
meaning for a pupil
1) A grandparent is a parent of your mother or father: your grandmother or your grandfather. tree →
2) Your grandparents are both or all of them together. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life grandparents often care for children, tell family stories and visit on holidays. In family-tree lessons, grandparents are two generations above you; each person usually has four grandparents. Words for them: grandma, gran, nan, nana, granny, grandpa, grandad, pop. Phrases: on my mum's side, great-grandparent.
examples
- My grandparents live by the sea. tree →
- Every child has four grandparents. tree →
- Gran is my favourite grandparent because she bakes. tree →
- We visit our grandparents at Thanksgiving. tree →
- My grandparent on Dad's side came from Ireland. tree →
- Grandparents' Day is a special day at our school. tree →
- A great-grandparent is a parent of a grandparent. tree →
- She phones her grandparents every Sunday. tree →
- The sweet children rode on their hobby-horses through all the rooms when they came to see the grandparents. tree →
note
Countable: a grandparent, two grandparents. Written as one word. Grandmother = female, grandfather = male. Maths: if each parent has 2 parents, you have 2 x 2 = 4 grandparents and 8 great-grandparents.
In the corpora
- Labour can take many hours, so a grandparent or friend often comes to look after the older children.
- When a grandparent is "slowing down", they may need more help, more doctor visits and more company from their family.
- "chuān duō diǎnr" means "wear more layers!", the favourite advice of grandparents, even in spring.
- Some grandparents also count birthdays by the lunar calendar, which falls on a different Western date each year.
- Parents, carers, grandparents, teachers, school nurses and coaches can be trusted adults.
Trees and pragmatics
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