twice

«twice» in Mova's school dictionary: two times: «I rang twice» — 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

adverb

meaning for a pupil

1) Twice means two times: «I rang twice». tree →

2) Twice as many or twice as much means double the amount. tree →

sense in the lessons

two times as many: «twice as many as N» is N × 2; also counts events that happen two times; phrases: «twice as many», «twice a day», «think twice»

examples

• Ben has twice as many cookies as Lily. tree →
• Zoe read twice as many pages as Tom. tree →
• Sam jumped twice. tree →
• Brush your teeth twice a day. tree →
• A bike has twice as many wheels as a unicycle. tree →
• I knocked twice, but nobody came. tree →
• Think twice before you say something unkind. tree →
• My brother is twice my age. tree →
• The Fairy clapped her hands twice. tree →

note

«twice as many as N» is N × 2. Trap: «twice as many» is not «2 more». «twice» alone may just count events, not multiply amounts.

In the corpora

• Bots add some randomness, so even the same bot can answer differently twice.
• A real roadrunner can run at about 30 km per hour, but a real coyote can run about twice as fast.
• A cow's stomach has four parts, and it chews its food twice, bringing it back up as cud.
• A real roadrunner can run about thirty kilometres an hour, but a coyote can run about twice as fast.
• A real roadrunner is a bird that runs about thirty kilometres an hour, and a real coyote can run about twice as fast.

Trees and pragmatics

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