sometime

«sometime» in Mova's school dictionary: not said exactly: come and visit sometime — 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

adverb, adjective (sometime)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sometime means at a time that is not said exactly: come and visit sometime. tree →

2) As an adjective, sometime means former, in the past: his sometime teacher (rare). tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths a word of the story only; carries no number. Everyday: sometime soon, sometime next week, sometime in the morning.

examples

• She will visit sometime next week. tree →
• Sometime in the morning he read 20 pages. tree →
• They plan to finish sometime soon. tree →
• Sometime later 4 more birds came. tree →
• Let's play together sometime. tree →
• The parcel will arrive sometime today. tree →
• Sometime in spring the swallows come back. tree →

note

Carries no number. Trap: «sometime» (one unknown time) is not the same as «sometimes» (now and then, on some occasions) or «some time» (a long time: I waited for some time).

In the corpora

• Wanna play online sometime?» With their dads' OK they play every week.

Trees and pragmatics

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