tenth
part of speech
number, adjective, noun (tenth, tenths)
meaning for a pupil
1) Tenth comes after ninth in order: number 10. tree →
2) A tenth is one of ten equal parts of a whole, written 1/10 or 0.1. tree →
3) The tenths place is the first digit after the decimal point. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: an order position (the tenth day) or a fraction (one tenth = 0.1); one tenth of a total means divide by 10; decimals: 0.3 is 3 tenths. Everyday: tenth birthday, tenth floor, «a tenth of a second» in races.
examples
- She came tenth in the race. tree →
- One tenth of the 50 apples were bad. tree →
- On the tenth day he finished the book. tree →
- 3 tenths is written 0.3. tree →
- He won by a tenth of a second. tree →
- In 4.7, the 7 is in the tenths place. tree →
- My tenth birthday party was at the zoo. tree →
- On the tenth day all is still, and he enters the castle. tree →
note
Written 10th. As a fraction: one tenth of a total means divide by 10. As an order word it gives a position, not an amount. Trap: «tenths» (0.1) is not «tens» (10).
In the corpora
- A school backpack should weigh no more than about a tenth to a seventh of your body weight.
- On his tenth birthday Corey sits by the phone all afternoon, cake untouched.
- At Christmas dinner Uncle Mike says "Bulls hate red!" for the tenth year running, and half the family groans.
- Tithing is the old practice of giving a tenth of one's income to God's work.
- About seven tenths of the Earth's surface is covered by water.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tenth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.