stopped
part of speech
verb, past form of stop (stop, stops, stopped, stopping); adjective (stopped)
meaning for a pupil
1) Stopped means came to an end or made something end: «The rain stopped». tree →
2) Stopped means no longer moving: «The bus stopped at the corner». tree →
3) Stopped can mean blocked: «a stopped sink». tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories, «stopped» marks a sudden change: «Suddenly the music stopped». In science, a moving object stopped by friction or a force; in maths problems about journeys, «stopped for 10 minutes» means add 10 minutes to the time and no distance in that time. In safety, look and wait until the car has stopped before crossing. Phrases: «stopped to» (paused to do), «stopped doing» (no longer did).
examples
- The rain stopped at last. tree →
- The car stopped at the red light. tree →
- She stopped to tie her shoe. tree →
- He stopped eating sweets. tree →
- The clock stopped at midnight. tree →
- Wait until the bus has stopped before you get off. tree →
- We stopped for lunch on the way. tree →
- Suddenly the noise stopped. tree →
- They stopped in a wide courtyard. tree →
note
Double p: stop → stopped, stopping. Meaning changes: «stopped to talk» = paused something else in order to talk; «stopped talking» = no more talking. Maths: if a train goes 60 km in an hour then stopped for 15 minutes, it still went 60 km.
In the corpora
- The boiler heats the water and the radiators, and "packed in" means it has stopped working.
- Being dead means the body has stopped working for ever; it is not the same as sleep.
- The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.
- Many zoos have stopped tricks like ball balancing and show natural behaviour instead.
- When the danger outside was stopped, zoos could send them home again.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «stopped» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.