tuesday

«tuesday» in Mova's school dictionary: the day of the week after Monday and before Wednesday — 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

noun (Tuesday, Tuesdays)

meaning for a pupil

Tuesday is the day of the week after Monday and before Wednesday. tree →

sense in the lessons

a second day on which something happens; two days give two parts: add them for «in all»; school timetables and clubs are set by weekdays; phrases: «on Tuesday», «on Tuesdays» (every Tuesday), «next Tuesday», «last Tuesday»

examples

• Ben bought 6 cards on Monday and 5 cards on Tuesday. tree →
• On Tuesday Zoe read 4 more pages than on Monday. tree →
• How many did Sam pick on Tuesday? tree →
• We have swimming on Tuesdays. tree →
• The library is closed on Tuesday. tree →
• Tuesday is the second school day of the week. tree →
• Gran visits us every Tuesday. tree →
• The test is next Tuesday. tree →
• It was during the night between a Tuesday and a Wednesday. tree →

note

Always written with a capital letter: Tuesday. «on Tuesdays» means every Tuesday. Two days give two parts: add them for «in all». Trap: the question may ask about one day only.

In the corpora

• Third time this week!» What she saw is one car in one space on Tuesday.
• The confirmed part of a street story is what someone actually saw, like a car parked in a space on Tuesday.
• A recount retells real events in time order: «On Tuesday, Class 4 went to the seaside.
• A proper noun names one particular person, place or thing and starts with a capital letter: Ellie, London, Tuesday.
• In rules and formal notices "shall" works like "must": "Bins shall be put out on Tuesday."

Trees and pragmatics

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