sitting

«sitting» in Mova's school dictionary: resting your bottom on a chair, the floor or another… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form (-ing form of sit: sit, sits, sat, sitting); noun (a sitting, sittings); adjective (sitting room)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sitting means resting your bottom on a chair, the floor or another seat, with your back up. tree →

2) Sitting can mean staying in a place or position: the book was sitting on the shelf. tree →

3) A sitting is one of the times when a meal is served to a group, or one session of doing something. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and school: «sitting still», «sitting on the carpet», «sitting in your seat with your seat belt on». In health lessons, sitting too long is not good; get up and move. In stories «sitting» sets the scene (sitting by the fire). In the UK a «sitting room» is a living room. Phrases: sit down, sitting up, sitting still, sitting room, at one sitting, babysitting.

examples

• The children were sitting on the carpet for the story. tree →
• Please stay sitting while the bus is moving. tree →
• My cat is sitting on the window sill. tree →
• I read the whole book at one sitting. tree →
• We were sitting by the campfire. tree →
• Sitting for hours in front of a screen is not healthy. tree →
• The keys were sitting on the table the whole time. tree →
• She is babysitting her little cousin. tree →
• ‘Who’s been sitting on my little chair?’ tree →

note

Double the «t»: sit → sitting. Past: sat. «Sitting» (on a seat) and «setting» (put something down, or the place of a story) are different words. «Seated» is the more formal word.

In the corpora

• If sitting brings a treat, the dog sits more; if jumping up brings attention, it jumps more.
• When you ride a pony you are sitting on thousands of years of history.
• They find the Mock Turtle sitting sad and lonely on a ledge of rock, sighing as if his heart would break.
• Sitting by the driver, Toad asks sweetly if «she» may try driving, just to tell her friends.
• Mole and Badger were sitting by the fire, unarmed and taken by surprise; there were hundreds against two.

Trees and pragmatics

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