occur

«occur» in Mova's school dictionary: To happen, especially without being planned — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (occur, occurs, occurred, occurring)

meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To happen, especially without being planned. tree →

2) To be found or to exist somewhere. tree →

3) occur to someone: to come into someone's mind. tree →

sense in the lessons

Formal exam word for "happen": "how many times does the number 3 occur?" means how many times it appears. In science: earthquakes occur along faults. Phrases: occur to, it occurred to me.

examples

• Accidents often occur in the kitchen. tree →
• How many times does the letter e occur in "sheep"? tree →
• Earthquakes occur where plates meet. tree →
• It occurred to me that I had left my bag at school. tree →
• This kind of frog occurs only in the rainforest. tree →
• The storm occurred during the night. tree →

note

Double r in occurred, occurring, and occurrence (also double c). In a maths problem "occurs" usually asks you to count how many times something appears.

In the corpora

• Selling the horse had not occurred to Toad before.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «occur» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.