grow
part of speech
verb (grow, grows, grew, grown, growing)
meaning for a pupil
1) To grow is to get bigger or taller, like a child or a plant. tree →
2) To grow plants is to plant them and help them come up from the soil. tree →
3) To grow can mean to increase in number or amount, like a town or savings. tree →
4) To grow can mean to become, as in grow tired or grow dark. tree →
5) To grow up is to change from a child into an adult. tree →
sense in the lessons
An increase over time (a plant grows 2 cm a week), or plants produced in a garden. In science: living things grow; seeds need water, light and warmth to grow; children grow taller each year. In stories: Jack's beanstalk grew up to the sky. Phrases: «grow up», «grow into», «grow out of», «grow bigger».
examples
- The plant grows 3 cm each week. tree →
- She grew 20 tomatoes. tree →
- The puppy grew 4 kilograms. tree →
- How tall will it grow in 5 weeks? tree →
- I want to be a vet when I grow up. tree →
- It grew dark, so we went inside. tree →
- The beanstalk grew taller than the house. tree →
- My little brother grew out of his shoes. tree →
- All children, except one, grow up. tree →
note
Growing adds; a fixed amount «each week» means repeated adding (rate × weeks), then add to the start height. Trap: do not forget the starting height. Irregular verb: grow, grew, grown (not «growed»).
In the corpora
- Employers often glance at a CV for less than a minute, so grown-ups fuss over every word.
- It means grown-ups are steering the money so it lasts the whole month.
- Most grown-ups keep their money in a bank account, and most of it is never seen as notes and coins.
- Interest that grows on interest is called compound interest.
- A bank statement lists everything that went in and out of an account, and grown-ups check it for mistakes and fraud.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «grow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.