hurry
part of speech
verb (hurry, hurries, hurried, hurrying); noun (a hurry; in a hurry)
meaning for a pupil
1) To hurry means to move or do something quickly because there is not much time. tree →
2) A hurry is a need to be quick; if you are in a hurry, you have to be fast. tree →
3) To hurry someone means to make them go faster. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life, parents say «hurry up» in the morning before school. In safety lessons, hurrying causes accidents: never hurry across a road, run near a pool or rush down stairs. In stories, a character in a hurry is late or worried. Phrases: hurry up, in a hurry, no hurry, hurry home, what's the hurry.
examples
- Hurry up, or we'll miss the bus! tree →
- She hurried home before it got dark. tree →
- I'm in a hurry, so I can't talk now. tree →
- There's no hurry; take your time. tree →
- Don't hurry across the road; stop and look first. tree →
- He hurried through his homework and made mistakes. tree →
- Don't hurry me, I'm still thinking! tree →
- The rabbit was always in a hurry. tree →
- "Hurry up, can't you?" he said. tree →
note
Y changes to i: hurries, hurried; but hurrying. «In a hurry» needs «a». Hurrying often causes mistakes in maths; checking your work is worth the time. «Hurry» and «rush» mean almost the same.
In the corpora
- RABBIT", and Alice goes in without knocking and hurries upstairs, afraid of meeting the real Mary Ann and being turned out.
- In the middle is a dish of tarts that look so good that Alice wishes they'd hurry up and hand round the refreshments.
- We needn't decide anything in a hurry.
- They hurry home across the snowy fields towards the river.
- "Shotgun wedding" means a wedding hurried because a baby is on the way (jokey).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hurry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.