month
part of speech
noun (month, months)
meaning for a pupil
1) A month is one of the twelve parts of a year, like March or July. A year has 12 months. tree →
2) A month has about 30 days, or about 4 weeks; some have 31 days, and February has 28 or 29. tree →
3) A month can also mean any time of about four weeks: «in a month». tree →
sense in the lessons
a unit of time; problems give money saved, pages read or rent paid each month, and change months into years or weeks; in everyday life calendars, birthdays and school terms; in science the Moon goes round the Earth in about a month; phrases «a month ago», «once a month», «month by month», «next month»
examples
- She saves 20 dollars every month. tree →
- There are 12 months in a year. tree →
- The rent is 500 dollars a month. tree →
- How much does he earn in 3 months? tree →
- My birthday is in the month of May. tree →
- The puppy is 3 months old. tree →
- We go to the library once a month. tree →
- It takes about a month for the Moon to go round the Earth. tree →
- A month passed; a year passed. tree →
note
«Each month», «a month», «per month» mark a rate: total = rate × number of months. 12 months = 1 year. Trap: months have 28 to 31 days, so do not use exactly 4 weeks unless the problem says so. Names of months start with a capital letter. «Monthly» means once a month.
In the corpora
- Payday is the day pay arrives in the bank, often once a month, so money is usually lowest just before it.
- Living in a home costs money every single month, even when nobody buys anything new.
- It means grown-ups are steering the money so it lasts the whole month.
- That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month."
- A subscription keeps taking money every month until it is cancelled, and free trials often turn into payments.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «month» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.