helper
part of speech
noun (a helper, helpers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A helper is a person who helps someone do a job. tree →
2) In school, a helper can be a teaching assistant, a parent who helps, or a child given a job, like «milk helper». tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and school, helpers set up the classroom, hand out books, or help on trips. In safety lessons «look for the helpers» — police officers, teachers, shop staff — means there are people you can go to if you are lost or scared. In stories little helpers, like Santa's elves, do work for others. Phrases: «a good helper», «classroom helper», «parent helper», «mother's little helper».
examples
- Who wants to be today's helper? tree →
- The parent helpers came on our school trip. tree →
- She is a great helper in the kitchen. tree →
- If you get lost, look for a helper like a police officer. tree →
- Santa's helpers make the toys. tree →
- The helper gave out the pencils. tree →
- Thanks for being such a good helper! tree →
- Our class helper waters the plants. tree →
- He was a good friend of the king, and one of his strongest helpers. tree →
note
Countable: helpers. Built from help + er (a person who does). Also «assistant». Safety: a safe helper when lost is someone in uniform, a shop worker at a till, or a parent with children.
In the corpora
- Good helpers, even good bots, always send you back to real people.
- Noticing these helpers calmly, and checking them where it matters, is the grown-up way to live with them.
- Many people already use AI as a helper at work, and knowing the basics yourself helps you check it.
- Farmers have other helpers too: ladybirds that eat aphids and barn owls that hunt mice.
- When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s Dust Bowl, when bare ploughed soil simply blew away.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «helper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.