sixty

«sixty» in Mova's school dictionary: the number 60, which is six tens — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

number (sixty)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sixty is the number 60, which is six tens. tree →

2) An hour has 60 minutes and a minute has 60 seconds. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: a number; 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, so time problems often hide 60. Everyday: ages, prices, speed limits («sixty miles an hour»).

examples

• There are sixty minutes in an hour. tree →
• Sixty people came. tree →
• A ticket costs sixty cents. tree →
• What is sixty divided by five? tree →
• A minute has sixty seconds. tree →
• Grandma turned sixty last week. tree →
• The car was going sixty kilometers an hour. tree →
• “I never run less than sixty miles,” Cael replied sullenly. tree →

note

A number word; read it as 60. Hours and minutes hide the 60. Trap: do not confuse sixty (60) with sixteen (16). Trap: time is not base ten — 1 hour 30 minutes is 90 minutes, not 130.

Trees and pragmatics

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