personal
part of speech
adjective (personal)
meaning for a pupil
1) Personal means belonging to or about one particular person. tree →
2) Personal means private, about your own life, body or feelings. tree →
3) Personal means done by you yourself, not through someone else. tree →
sense in the lessons
In online safety lessons pupils keep personal information (full name, address, school, phone number, passwords, photos) private and never share it with strangers. In PSHE lessons personal space and personal hygiene matter. In sport a personal best (PB) is your own fastest or highest result. Phrases: personal information, personal space, personal hygiene, personal best, personal question, nothing personal.
examples
- Never share personal information online. tree →
- Washing every day is part of personal hygiene. tree →
- Please give me some personal space. tree →
- She ran her personal best in the race. tree →
- That's a personal question. tree →
- Each pupil has a personal locker. tree →
- It's nothing personal — I just want to sit alone. tree →
- He was too polite to make any personal remarks out loud. tree →
note
Stress: PER-son-al. Do not confuse with «personnel» (the staff of a company), stressed at the end. Adverb: personally («Personally, I like it» = in my opinion). «Personal best» compares you only with yourself.
In the corpora
- Personal writing must come from your own life, because only you know your own stories.
- You keep people's personal details, such as addresses, private, and politely explain why you won't share them.
- Critics write reviews with reasons; you can read their reasons and still disagree, as taste is personal.
- A diary is personal and chatty: «Dear Diary, today was the WORST.
- A diary is a personal record of events and feelings, written in the first person.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «personal» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.