ten

«ten» in Mova's school dictionary: the number 10 — 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

number (ten)

meaning for a pupil

1) Ten is the number 10. It is one more than nine. tree →

2) Ten is the base of our number system: 10 ones make 1 ten, and 10 tens make 100. tree →

3) Ten out of ten means full marks. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: a number of things, or a place value (tens): 3 tens = 30; counting in tens; multiplying by 10 moves digits one place left. Everyday: ten fingers, ten toes, ten-pin bowling, a ten-dollar note.

examples

• She has ten pencils. tree →
• Ten children are in the group. tree →
• He saves ten dollars a week. tree →
• Count by tens to 100. tree →
• We have ten fingers and ten toes. tree →
• She got ten out of ten on the spelling test. tree →
• 4 tens and 7 ones make 47. tree →
• Ten times ten is one hundred. tree →
• Ten or twelve crippled-beggars had encamped outside. tree →

note

A number written in words; read it as 10. «Tens» can mean groups of ten (3 tens = 30). Trap: do not confuse «ten» with «tenth» (10th or 1/10).

In the corpora

• A deposit for buying a home is often tens of thousands of pounds, and saving for it can take years.
• Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime.
• Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while people kill tens of millions of sharks every year.
• An elephant's trunk has tens of thousands of muscle bundles and can hold things as delicately as fingers.
• A hive can have about 50,000 bees: one queen, tens of thousands of female workers and some hundreds of males called drones.

Trees and pragmatics

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