morning
part of speech
noun (morning, mornings)
meaning for a pupil
1) The morning is the early part of the day, from when the sun rises until midday (noon). tree →
2) The morning is also the time from midnight to noon, as in «2 o'clock in the morning». tree →
3) «Good morning» is a greeting. tree →
sense in the lessons
a time label that splits a day into parts; amounts from the morning are added to or compared with the afternoon or evening; on a clock, morning times are a.m.; phrases «in the morning», «this morning», «good morning», «morning tea» (Australia, UK)
examples
- She picked 25 apples in the morning. tree →
- In the morning, 30 campers went rowing. tree →
- How many more in the morning than in the afternoon? tree →
- He got 6 emails in the morning. tree →
- Good morning, class! tree →
- I brush my teeth every morning. tree →
- School starts at 8:30 in the morning. tree →
- The birds sing early in the morning. tree →
- We had morning tea at 10:30. tree →
- She woke up at 3 in the morning because of the storm. tree →
- "Good morning, Little Red-Cap," he said. tree →
note
A time label, not a thing counted. The parts of the day are added for the whole day. Trap: «more in the morning than in the afternoon» is a difference. Morning ends at noon (12:00); a.m. times are morning. Do not confuse with «mourning» (being sad after a death).
In the corpora
- Morning sickness is feeling or being sick in early pregnancy, and despite the name it can happen at any time of day.
- Morning sickness usually gets better after about three or four months, and it is not catching.
- Coffee contains caffeine, which makes the brain feel more awake; people who drink it every morning feel slow and grumpy without it.
- Everyone looks like that at six in the morning."
- And there it hurts most, because the person has to walk into class the next morning.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «morning» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.