heard
part of speech
verb (past and past participle of hear: hear, hears, heard, heard, hearing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Heard means you noticed a sound with your ears in the past: I heard a bang. tree →
2) It also means you were told news or information: I heard that school is closed. tree →
3) Heard of means you know that something exists: Have you heard of this game? tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories «heard» tells the reader what a character noticed by sound, often a clue or a warning (heard footsteps, heard a scream). In science lessons on sound, we say a sound is heard when sound waves reach the ear. In safety: if you heard a smoke alarm, get out. Phrases: heard about, heard of, heard from, never heard of, overheard.
examples
- I heard a dog barking outside. tree →
- Did you hear thunder? Yes, I heard it. tree →
- We heard the news on the radio. tree →
- Have you heard of the Loch Ness monster? tree →
- She heard footsteps on the stairs. tree →
- I have not heard from my pen pal yet. tree →
- The teacher heard us whispering. tree →
- Sound travels through the air to be heard. tree →
- Presently he heard steps coming upstairs. tree →
note
Pronounced like «herd» (a group of cows): heard and herd are homophones. Not spelled «heared». Hear is about the ear; listen means you pay attention on purpose: you can hear without listening.
In the corpora
- "I'm just saying what I heard" and "I only told one person" are still spreading a rumour.
- Feeling embarrassed is normal; grown-ups have heard it before and will not think less of you.
- "It was reported that" separates what we know ourselves from what we heard.
- Honesty for an AI starts with three labels: what you know, what you heard and what you guess.
- Balance means getting each part at the right volume so every part can be heard; being loudest does not make you sound best.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «heard» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.