sister
part of speech
noun (sister, sisters)
meaning for a pupil
1) A sister is a girl or woman who has the same parents as you. tree →
2) A half-sister shares one parent with you; a stepsister is the daughter of your stepparent. tree →
3) A sister is also a nun, or a senior nurse in some hospitals. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: a person in the story who gets, gives or compares amounts; sisters counted; ages compared («3 years older») lead to add or subtract. Family words: brother, sibling, twin sister, big sister, little sister.
examples
- Her sister is 3 years older. tree →
- He gave half his candy to his sister. tree →
- Ann has 2 sisters and 1 brother. tree →
- How many apples does his sister have? tree →
- My little sister is learning to walk. tree →
- The twin sisters wore matching coats. tree →
- Ask your big sister to help you with your homework. tree →
- Sister Mary teaches music at the school. tree →
- There was his sister chasing him. tree →
note
Countable: a sister, sisters; «sister's» (one), «sisters'» (many). A person; ages compared («older by») lead to add or subtract. Trap: ages of sisters stay apart by the same number of years forever. Trap: «Ann has 2 sisters» — Ann herself is not one of them, so the family has 3 girls.
In the corpora
- The children of a parent's partner can become your step-siblings: brothers or sisters through marriage, not by birth.
- A baby who shares only one parent with you is your half-brother or half-sister.
- Tamarins and marmosets usually have twins, and the father and older brothers and sisters carry the babies most of the time.
- It has left its mother, brothers and sisters and the warm pile where it slept.
- «Well in» is a pun: the sisters are in the well, and «well in» also means deep inside.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sister» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.