helping
part of speech
noun (a helping, helpings); verb form (help, helps, helped, helping); adjective (helping)
meaning for a pupil
1) An amount of food served to one person at one time: a second helping of pudding. tree →
2) Giving help: helping others is kind. tree →
3) (phrase) «A helping hand» means some help. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life «a second helping» means more food on your plate; in maths, helpings appear in sharing and fraction problems (8 helpings from 2 pizzas). In PSHE and stories, helping others is a key value. Phrases: a second helping, a helping hand, helping out, helping with.
examples
- Can I have a second helping of lasagne, please? tree →
- Thanks for giving me a helping hand with the boxes. tree →
- Helping at the food bank made me feel good. tree →
- Each helping of soup is 250 millilitres. tree →
- If one cake makes 8 helpings, 3 cakes make 24 helpings. tree →
- I'm helping Gran with her garden on Saturday. tree →
- She took a small helping because she wasn't hungry. tree →
- He thought only of helping the queen. tree →
note
Countable (a helping, two helpings) when it means a portion. In maths, «helpings» = equal portions: total ÷ size of each helping = number of helpings. Similar words: portion, serving. Do not confuse «helping» (a portion) with «helper» (a person who helps).
In the corpora
- Helping others cheat, or selling them copied work, is wrong too.
- That is AI at its best: a patient pattern-spotter helping people do something they could not do alone.
- Helping someone learn is different from doing their homework for them; you can explain, give tips and ask questions instead.
- What you learned is for helping people understand, check and learn, never for tricking or flattering them.
- Vaccines given by injection protect pets by helping their bodies learn to fight illnesses.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «helping» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.