rung

«rung» in Mova's school dictionary: one of the bars or steps of a ladder that you put your… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a rung, rungs); verb form: past participle of ring (ring, rang, rung)

meaning for a pupil

1) A rung is one of the bars or steps of a ladder that you put your feet on. tree →

2) (verb) Rung is a form of "ring": "The bell has rung." tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and safety: hold the ladder and step on each rung carefully. In grammar lessons: ring, rang, rung. Figuratively: "the first rung on the ladder" means the first step in a job or plan.

examples

• She climbed up the ladder one rung at a time. tree →
• The bottom rung of the ladder is broken. tree →
• The bell has rung for lunch. tree →
• Have you rung Grandma yet? tree →
• Hold the sides, not the rungs, when you climb. tree →
• This job is the first rung on the ladder. tree →
• No bells were rung, and no ringer ever came back. tree →

note

Trap with ring: "rang" is the simple past (the bell rang), "rung" goes with have/has/had (the bell has rung). Do not write "I rung her yesterday".

In the corpora

• On climbing equipment you use one hand per rung, take turns and do not push.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rung» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.