newspaper
part of speech
noun (a newspaper, newspapers; newspaper — uncountable as material)
meaning for a pupil
1) Large folded sheets of printed paper with news, stories, pictures and adverts, published every day or week. tree →
2) A company that makes a newspaper. tree →
3) (uncountable) Old sheets of newspaper used for wrapping, painting or crafts. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school: reading newspapers for news and non-fiction; writing a newspaper report with a headline, who/what/where/when/why; covering desks with newspaper for painting. In lessons on fake news: check facts, not everything printed is true; some newspapers have opinions. Phrases: «read the newspaper», «a newspaper article/report», «a local newspaper», «wrapped in newspaper».
examples
- Grandpa reads the newspaper every morning. tree →
- We wrote a newspaper report about the school fair. tree →
- Cover the table with newspaper before you paint. tree →
- Our class was in the local newspaper! tree →
- The chips came wrapped in newspaper. tree →
- A newspaper headline should be short and catchy. tree →
- Not everything in a newspaper is a fact; some articles are opinions. tree →
- In the newspapers there was an announcement. tree →
note
Countable for papers (a newspaper), uncountable for the material (some newspaper). Short form: paper. One word. Plural: newspapers.
In the corpora
- Above them are «royal sources», newspaper columns and online guesses — some right, many wrong, none of them checkable.
- «Sources close to» someone are people a newspaper does not name, so their claims cannot be checked by the reader.
- Newspaper articles include quotes, which are people's exact words in inverted commas.
- Newspaper features include a headline, a photo, a caption and columns.
- Newspapers can favour one side; comparing two reports helps you spot it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «newspaper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.