respond
part of speech
verb (respond, responds, responded, responding); noun response
meaning for a pupil
1) To respond means to answer, by speaking or writing. tree →
2) To respond means to react to something by doing something. tree →
3) To respond to treatment means to start getting better. tree →
sense in the lessons
In class: respond to a question, respond to a story in a reading response. Science: living things respond to their surroundings — plants respond to light, our pupils respond to bright light. Safety: emergency services respond to calls. Phrases: respond to, respond quickly, respond well.
examples
- Please respond to the email. tree →
- Plants respond to light by growing towards it. tree →
- The firefighters responded to the call in minutes. tree →
- She didn't respond when I called her name. tree →
- The patient is responding well to the medicine. tree →
- How did the character respond to the bad news? tree →
- "Yes, sir," responded Charley, gravely, "dat's so." tree →
note
Always «respond to» something: «respond to the question», not «respond the question». Noun: response. Responsive = quick to react.
In the corpora
- A sore arm or a slight fever for a day or two after a jab is the immune system responding, not the disease.
- Goldfish can remember things for months and can be trained to respond to sounds and push levers for food.
- Understanding why someone is mean does not make the meanness okay, but it can change how you respond.
- In many rounds one team gives its view and the other team responds, adding ideas and asking questions rather than attacking.
- The Ethics Bowl is a similar competition in the USA and elsewhere, where teams analyse cases and respond to each other.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «respond» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.