spoken

«spoken» in Mova's school dictionary: the form of «speak» used after have, has, had or be: «I… — 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 (past participle of speak); adjective (spoken)

meaning for a pupil

1) Spoken is the form of «speak» used after have, has, had or be: «I have spoken», «English is spoken here». tree →

2) Spoken means said out loud, not written, as in «spoken English». tree →

3) «Soft-spoken» or «well-spoken» describes how a person talks. tree →

sense in the lessons

In language lessons spoken English is compared with written English; in stories «the words were spoken» shows someone said them. Phrases: «spoken language», «the spoken word», «softly spoken», «spoken for» (already taken).

examples

• I have spoken to my teacher about the trip. tree →
• French is spoken in Canada. tree →
• She is a soft-spoken girl. tree →
• Spoken English is often less formal than written English. tree →
• Not a word was spoken on the long drive. tree →
• This seat is already spoken for. tree →
• He had never spoken in front of the whole school before. tree →
• Meanwhile the swallows had spoken again. tree →

note

Irregular verb: speak – spoke – spoken. Say «I have spoken», not «I have spoke». Spoken (said aloud) vs written (on paper). «Spoken for» = reserved or already taken.

In the corpora

• Not every silent letter used to be spoken.
• Silent letters often show how words were said long ago: the k in «knife» was once spoken.
• The punctuation that ends the spoken words goes inside the closing inverted commas.
• A dialect is a variety of a language with its own words and grammar, spoken by a group or in a place.
• An accent is the way words sound; any dialect, including Standard English, can be spoken in any accent.

Trees and pragmatics

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