lastly
part of speech
adverb
meaning for a pupil
Lastly means at the end, after everything else; it introduces the last thing in a list. tree →
sense in the lessons
in stories it marks the last event or person in a sequence, as in «Lastly, there came …»; in speech it introduces the final point
examples
- First we ate, then we sang, and lastly we went home. tree →
- Lastly, there came the two sons of the sick man. tree →
- Lastly he said, 'Well, Jack my Hedgehog, and what shall I bring you?' tree →
note
nothing for maths; it only names the last item of a list and does not change a count.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «lastly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.