swept
part of speech
verb, past form of sweep (sweep, sweeps, swept, sweeping)
meaning for a pupil
1) Swept is the past of sweep: cleaned the floor or ground with a brush or broom. tree →
2) Swept means moved quickly and smoothly, or pushed or carried along with force, like a wave sweeping something away. tree →
3) Swept can mean spread fast over an area, like news or fire sweeping across a country. tree →
4) A team that «swept» won every game. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and chores: «I swept the kitchen floor». In stories and safety: a flood swept away cars; a strong current swept a swimmer out — so swim only between the flags. In news: a storm swept across the country. Phrases: «swept away», «swept up», «swept off your feet» (fell in love quickly).
examples
- I swept the leaves off the path. tree →
- The river swept the bridge away. tree →
- She swept into the room in a long dress. tree →
- The cold wind swept across the field. tree →
- A wave swept his bucket out to sea. tree →
- We swept up all the broken glass carefully. tree →
- The new game swept through the whole school. tree →
- Here he swept a path, there he trained a twig. tree →
note
Irregular verb: sweep, swept, swept (not «sweeped»). Similar pattern: keep/kept, sleep/slept, weep/wept. Never walk or drive through floodwater: it can sweep you away.
In the corpora
- The African forest buffalo is a smaller, reddish cousin of the savanna buffalo, with swept-back horns that fit dense forest.
- The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon.
- But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be swept away, both ye and your king.'
- Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is swept away by want of righteousness.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «swept» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.