whole

«whole» in Mova's school dictionary: all of it, with no part missing: «the whole cake» — 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

adjective, noun (a whole, wholes)

meaning for a pupil

1) Whole means all of it, with no part missing: «the whole cake». tree →

2) A whole is a complete thing made of parts: «Two halves make a whole». tree →

3) A whole number is a number like 0, 1, 2, 3 with no fraction or decimal part. tree →

sense in the lessons

the entire problem; all of a group; «the whole» is the total of all the parts; whole numbers have no fractions; phrases: «the whole class», «as a whole», «whole number», «on the whole» (mostly)

examples

• Read the whole problem first, then choose. tree →
• Ben ate the whole cake. tree →
• The whole class has 28 children. tree →
• Two halves make one whole. tree →
• 7 is a whole number, but 7.5 is not. tree →
• It rained the whole day. tree →
• The snake swallowed the egg whole. tree →
• On the whole, I like school. tree →
• Here they stay a whole day. tree →

note

Read everything before deciding. «the whole» is the total of all the parts. Trap: «whole» and «hole» (an opening) sound the same. «whole» goes with countable things (the whole cake); «all» goes with both (all the milk).

In the corpora

• It means grown-ups are steering the money so it lasts the whole month.
• A newborn baby changes a whole house.
• Crime is on the news a lot, but most people live their whole lives without serious crime touching them.
• If the wrong things go in a recycling bin, a whole load can be spoiled.
• A reputation can grow from one small moment repeated as «always»; one bad week is not a whole reputation.

Trees and pragmatics

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