road
part of speech
noun (road, roads)
meaning for a pupil
1) A road is a wide hard path where cars, buses and bikes travel from one place to another. tree →
2) «Road» is part of many street names: «12 Mill Road». tree →
3) «On the road» means travelling. tree →
4) The road to something is the way to reach it: «the road to success». tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a length to travel or to build; distances along a road; trees or lamps along a road at equal gaps; parts of a road repaired each day. In everyday life and safety: road safety, crossing the road, road signs, a road trip. Phrases: «cross the road», «along the road», «down the road» (near, or later), «road trip», «main road».
examples
- The road from the farm to town is 12 km long. tree →
- Workers fix 300 m of road each day. tree →
- There are trees along the road every 5 m. tree →
- The road is 8 m wide. tree →
- Stop, look and listen before you cross the road. tree →
- We went on a road trip across Canada. tree →
- The shop is just down the road. tree →
- This road is closed for repairs. tree →
- They walked back to the road. tree →
note
Countable: «a road». Do not confuse with «rode» (past of ride) or «rowed» (same sound). Maths: usually gives a distance or a length. Trap: posts or trees «along a road» need one more than the gaps (or the same at both ends — read carefully). Safety: never play on the road.
In the corpora
- Taxes pay for schools, the NHS, roads, police and benefits.
- It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions.
- The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, bins, libraries and planning, run by elected councillors.
- The money taken off pays for schools, hospitals and roads, and some is saved for when she is old.
- Tax pays for schools, hospitals and roads; a pension is money saved for when you are old.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «road» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.