twentieth
part of speech
number, adjective, noun (twentieth, twentieths)
meaning for a pupil
1) Twentieth comes after nineteenth in order: number 20. tree →
2) A twentieth is one of twenty equal parts of a whole, written 1/20. tree →
3) The twentieth century was a hundred years of history, the time of the first cars, planes and computers. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: an order position or a fraction: one twentieth = 1/20 = 0.05 = 5%; as a fraction divide by 20; as an order word there are 19 before it. History: the twentieth century, with cars, planes and computers.
examples
- She was the twentieth person in line. tree →
- One twentieth of 100 is 5. tree →
- On his twentieth birthday he got a car. tree →
- The twentieth floor is the top. tree →
- One twentieth is the same as five percent. tree →
- Planes were invented in the twentieth century. tree →
- “Tink can’t go a twentieth part of the way round,” she reminded him a little tartly. tree →
note
Written 20th. As a fraction divide by 20. As an order word it gives a position: there are 19 before it. Trap: the twentieth century is the hundred years whose numbers begin with 19, not 20.
In the corpora
- «Let the jury consider their verdict,» says the King, for about the twentieth time.
- Recycling an aluminium can uses only about a twentieth of the energy needed to make a new one from rock.
- And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.
- And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.
- in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «twentieth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.