place
part of speech
noun (place, places); verb (place, places, placed, placing)
meaning for a pupil
1) A place is a particular area, spot or position: a quiet place. tree →
2) A place is a town, building or home: come to my place. tree →
3) A place is a position in a race or a list: first place. tree →
4) In maths, the place of a digit gives its value: the tens place. tree →
5) To place is to put something somewhere carefully. tree →
sense in the lessons
to put a thing on the table («I place one cup on the table»: the count goes up); «places N on each of M» = equal groups (multiply); in maths place value (ones, tens, hundreds); in sport first, second, third place; in everyday life «take place» (happen), «in place of» (instead of), «all over the place»
examples
- I place one cup on the table. tree →
- Sara places 4 plates on each of 3 tables. tree →
- Ben places 6 more books on the shelf. tree →
- In 352 the digit 5 is in the tens place. tree →
- Mia came in first place in the race. tree →
- This park is my favourite place. tree →
- Put the book back in its place. tree →
- The school fair will take place on Saturday. tree →
- At last he reached the place. tree →
note
Placing = things arrive: the count goes up. Trap: «places N on each of M» is equal groups: multiply. Place value: in 352 the 5 means 50, not 5.
In the corpora
- A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth.
- Councils have recycling rules about which bin takes plastic, paper, glass or food, and the rules differ from place to place.
- A bad picture fades faster if you fill your head with something else, like a favourite place, a game or a song.
- Many places have bagpipes: Scotland, Ireland's uilleann pipes, the gaita of Galicia in Spain and the gaida of Bulgaria.
- Street art is art in public places, and the big question is always the same: did the owner agree?
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «place» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.