progress
part of speech
noun (progress — uncountable); verb (progress, progresses, progressed, progressing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Progress is moving forward or getting better at something over time. tree →
2) Progress is also movement towards a place. tree →
3) To progress is to move forward, develop or improve. tree →
4) «In progress» means happening now and not finished yet. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school, teachers talk about your progress in reading or maths and send progress reports. In science and history «progress» means new discoveries and inventions. Phrases: «make progress», «in progress», «progress report», «good progress», «slow progress».
examples
- You've made great progress with your reading this term. tree →
- Work in progress — please don't touch! tree →
- The climbers made slow progress up the snowy mountain. tree →
- My progress report said I'm good at maths. tree →
- As the story progresses, the hero gets braver. tree →
- Medicine has made huge progress in the last hundred years. tree →
- The game is in progress, so please wait. tree →
- The beaming Morning Star beheld how the work progressed. tree →
note
Stress: noun PRO-gress, verb pro-GRESS. The noun is uncountable: say «a lot of progress», «some progress», never «a progress» or «progresses». «Make progress» (not «do progress»).
In the corpora
- When someone says you can't learn, calmly showing your progress works better than arguing, and people may still disagree.
- Many teachers suggest giving a new instrument at least a full term before deciding, and recording yourself shows your progress.
- Spelling tests check progress; they are practice, not a judgement of the person.
- Writers are not born, they are made: practice makes progress.
- "Has made some progress" often means very little progress.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «progress» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.