sunday
part of speech
noun (Sunday, Sundays)
meaning for a pupil
1) Sunday is a day of the week. It comes after Saturday and before Monday. tree →
2) Sunday is part of the weekend; in many places it is a day of rest or of going to church. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a day in time problems; days of the week, counting days, things done on each day; a week is 7 days. In everyday life: Sunday lunch or roast, Sunday school, shops with short Sunday hours. In some calendars Sunday is the first day of the week, in others it is the last. Phrases: «on Sunday», «on Sundays», «Sunday best» (smartest clothes).
examples
- On Sunday she read 30 pages. tree →
- The shop is closed on Sunday. tree →
- From Monday to Sunday is 7 days. tree →
- He saved 2 dollars every day from Monday to Sunday. tree →
- We visit Nana every Sunday. tree →
- Sunday comes after Saturday. tree →
- On Sundays we have a roast dinner. tree →
- The library opens late on Sunday mornings. tree →
- On the following Sunday there was Communion. tree →
note
Always a capital S. «On Sunday», not «in Sunday». Short form «Sun». Maths: a name of a day; it can tell how many days to count. Trap: from Monday to Sunday counts 7 days including both ends.
In the corpora
- Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin struts inside like a bridge, light but strong.
- Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.
- "xīngqītiān" means Sunday, the only day without a number; "xīngqīrì" means the same.
- "lǎnchóng" means lazybones, literally "lazy worm", and parents use it fondly on Sunday mornings.
- Charlie heard a rude word on the school bus in Manchester and said it at Sunday dinner to see what would happen.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sunday» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.