third
part of speech
number, adjective, noun (third, thirds)
meaning for a pupil
1) Third comes after second in order: number 3. tree →
2) A third is one of three equal parts of a whole, written 1/3. tree →
3) Third place in a race wins a bronze medal. tree →
4) Third gear is a gear in a car. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: an order position or a fraction (one third of); one third of a total means divide by 3; two thirds is the rest. Everyday: third grade, third floor, the third time, «third time lucky», a third of the class.
examples
- He was third in the race. tree →
- One third of the 24 cookies were eaten. tree →
- On the third day it rained. tree →
- She gave a third of her money away. tree →
- Cut the cake into thirds. tree →
- The third time she tried, she did it. tree →
- Two thirds of the Earth is covered by water. tree →
- She won a bronze medal for third place. tree →
- The third task was the hardest. tree →
note
Written 3rd. As a fraction: one third of a total means divide by 3. Trap: «a third were eaten» gives the eaten part; what is left is the other two thirds. Trap: 1/3 as a decimal does not end (0.333...).
In the corpora
- Third time this week!» What she saw is one car in one space on Tuesday.
- «Third time this week» is nobody's count, and why he parks there is his business until somebody simply asks him.
- Third: people are now the strongest force on the planet.
- It uses its beak like a third foot and holds its food in one foot like a hand.
- In London sparrow numbers fell by about two-thirds in a few decades, and scientists still argue why.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «third» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.