Word meaning with sentences for kids

Words can have many meanings

Many words can have more than one meaning; in these vocabulary worksheets, students match different definitions of the same word to the word’s usage in different sentences.

This fun worksheet helps kids practice using a dictionary to research words with multiple meanings. How many meanings of «right» can they think of? How many does the dictionary have? Young writers will put their new understanding into practice by using the different definitions of «right» in sentences of their own and illustrating the word’s different meanings by drawing pictures.

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When teaching kids English, you need to always start with the basics. What are the basics of learning English? Is sentence formation the basis of learning English? Well, yes. But kids also need to understand what they read in books or listen to. Of course, it does not happen overnight. But sight words are something that can come to your rescue.

Simply because if you look at the sight words examples, you can see that sight words for kids do not have any image. They are just words that kids need to recognise and remember. In simple words, sight words help kids understand the text they read.

What Is the Meaning of Sight Words?

 

Sight words for kids

What are the sight words? To understand how sight words work, sight words’ meaning is very important. Sight words’ sentences are very common. They appear very frequently in every text. Though these words do not provide any particular image like others, they have high frequency, so readers need to memorise the words after seeing them.

For example, if you read the word ‘bright’ on a page, you can automatically get an image that talks about something clear and shiny.

So, what are sight words? The words like ‘I’, ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘a’ are the sight words. You can understand their contribution if you ask your kids to read at least a page daily. By learning the sight words, kids gain confidence in reading and understanding the sentences of an unknown text. The sight words have some characteristics, which are as follows:

• You can see sight words’ examples very often in a text. You can see them in every line of text.

• There is a huge sight words list, and if you follow the list, you can see that the sight words do not follow the traditional way of spelling. This means their sounds do not match up with their letters.

• Imagine the sight words’ sentences. Try to find ‘the’, ‘or’, ‘and’ in a sentence. Can you form a concrete image of these words? No right? Because as we have said before, these words do not carry any image with them like the rest.

• Whether you follow sight words for kids or sight words’ meaning, you can see that adjectives, common verbs, and conjunctions are commonly used as sight words. These words help convey a special meaning of the sentence despite carrying no special meaning individually.

List of Some Sight Words

There are at least 300 sight words in the English language. However, if your children are beginners, they will most likely deal with 100 sight words in whatever text they read or write.

• A: an, are, and, about, after.

• B: But, been.

• C: Called, could, can.

• D: Down, done, did.

• F: From, form, for, first.

• H: He, his, had, have.

• I: In, is, it.

• K: Know

• L: Like

• M: More, many, much, may, most

• N: Not, now

• O: Or, out, of, other

• S: Said she

• T: The, these, this, then, they

• U: Up

• W: Was, will, would, water.

• Y: Your, you, yours.

These are some basic sight words your kids can encounter while reading something.

How to Help Kids Learn Sight Words?

Sight word examples

Though sight words are very common and easily found, if kids get a little help, they can learn the use of the words faster. Since sight words with sentences are very common, here are some tips that can help you to teach kids the words sooner.

• The first thing you can do to teach kids how to memorise sight words is to expose them to more reading and listen to different texts daily. You can easily spend at least an hour with your kids reading something. If you keep reading them some stories daily, they can have many sight words. If you can do it multiple times every day, they are likely to hear at least 1 million or more than 1 million sight words daily.

• You can also teach them the sight words on the roads or in stores. On roads, you can see signboards, and in the stores, you can see many boards writing about different products. You can ask them to read them repeatedly. This practice can help them learn sight words with sentences.

• One of the best ways to teach sign words to kids is to emphasise the sentences that have sight words. When you read a story or passage to your kids, emphasise the lines and read them aloud, so they understand their meaning.

• You can help them use their senses by playing with them with sign words. For example, you can provide some fill-in-the-blanks exercises on a page and ask them to fill the gaps. This is a great way to teach them what sight words are and why these words are so important to form a sentence.

Some Sight Words Phrases and Sentences to Help Kids Learn the Use of Sight Words

Sight Words Phrases

• Come down here

• My mother is there

• A blue bear

• Pretty please

• Little flower girl

• My birthday cake

• Mountains without sun

• Sometimes it’s late

• Upon your word

Some Examples of Sight Words Sentences

• He will go up the hill.

• It was a long day.

• I ate an egg.

• The boat has a bell.

• It was a long day.

Conclusion

Sight words carry a lot of weight in the English language without carrying any meaning individually. In simple words, a sentence cannot form a meaning without using sight words. You can see sight words’ presence in every sentence now and then.

That is why you must teach kids the meaning of the sight words and their uses. One of the most common ways to teach kids the uses of sight words is to read them stories, poetry and different passages. This repetition can help them learn about sight words much faster.

One of the best and most efficient ways to
learn new words quickly and build up your vocabulary is to see how they are used in a sentence.

Learning words by seeing how they are used in a sentence is called
learning vocabulary in context. It is considered much more efficient than just memorizing the word and its meanings. It’s also much more interesting. 

When you learn vocabulary in context, you look at the word and its meaning, then read or hear a sentence that uses that word. This helps you internalize the meaning of the word and can also help you see how to use that word to make your own sentences. So, you are not just improving your vocabulary, you are also
picking up grammar tips as well. 

In this post, we’re going to show you 50 words with their meanings and sentences. We’re also going to provide you

with a PDF file of the words and their meanings and the example sentences at the end of this post.

1. Accommodate

Meaning: 

This is a verb that means that you gave consideration to someone. It’s often used to say that you agreed to a request.

Sentence:

The shopkeeper accommodated Jack’s request to buy a toothbrush, even if he was already closing up.

2. Advantageous

Meaning:

This is an adjective that means that you gave or were given an advantage. It is
a synonym for favorable.

Sentence:

They specifically looked for a hostel near the train station as it would be advantageous for their travel plans.

3. Absolve

Meaning:

This verb is used to say that you have forgiven someone or decided that they are not guilty

Sentence:

After listening to their story, the policeman absolved them and turned their attention to the truck driver.

4. Antidote

Meaning:

An antidote is a noun that means something that will relieve or counteract the negative effects of something. It’s commonly used to talk about a cure for poison.

Sentence: 

A stroll in the sunny park was the perfect antidote to Mark’s bad mood.

5. Boredom

Meaning: 

You can use this noun to say that you, or someone else, are very disinterested in what is happening or about the current state of affairs. Most of the time, people who are suffering from boredom need to try something new.

Sentence:

Boredom drove me to finally pursue my dream of
learning Russian.

6. Broach

Meaning: 

You can
use this verb if you want to say that someone introduced a topic into the conversation.

Sentence:

The teacher broached the subject about different
swear words in Chinese.

7. Clannish

Meaning: 

This adjective is used to describe a group of people who are very close and as such rather closed off or standoffish towards others.

Sentence:

Their clannish behavior makes it hard to approach them to ask for help.

8. Competence

Meaning:

This noun is used to indicate that someone is considered capable of
doing a good job.

Sentence:

Fred’s competence as an engineer led to his being entrusted with several projects for the organization.

9. Compassion

Meaning:

This is a noun that is used to describe acting with kindness or pity.

Sentence:

Show some compassion for those left homeless by the fire and donate some clothes you no longer use.

10. Consider 

Meaning: 

This is a verb that means to think carefully about a decision you need to make.

Sentence:

Before deciding what language to learn, you need to consider what language is
important for your career.

11. Cull

Meaning:

This is a noun that means to reduce the population of a group of animals by killing a select few.

Sentence:

The farmer will cull sickly chickens in the hope of saving the flock.

12. Dauntless

Meaning:

This adjective is used to describe a person or a person’s actions that are considered bold or brave. It also implies that they are persistent in the face of danger or people advising them to change their minds.

Sentence:

The most famous explorers in history needed to be dauntless in the face of the unknown.

13. Dreary

Meaning: 

The adjective is used to describe a situation or a person that is gloomy or cheerless.

Sentence:

Dark clouds and the hint of rain cast a dreary light over the beach.

14. Evident

Meaning:

This adjective is used to say that something is clear, easily seen, or understood.

Sentence:

Bert’s eagerness to learn is evident in the way he keeps asking for
new lists of idioms and their meanings.

15. Flurry

Meaning: 

This noun is a synonym for the commotion. It means that a lot of activity is taking place.

Sentence:

The news that their mother was on the way home caused a flurry of activity as the children put away their toys.

16. Fickle

Meaning:

You can use this adjective to indicate that someone changes their mind often.

Sentence:

Mark was very fickle when we were younger; he first wanted to be a doctor, then an actor, before he decided to just go to culinary school.

17. Fictitious

Meaning:

This word is an adjective that describes something that is imaginary. A character in a fiction book is fictitious.

Sentence:

I know he is a fictitious character, but I would love to find my own Mr. Darcy.

18. Irate

Meaning:

You use this adjective when you want to say that someone is angry and irritated.

Sentence:

Polly was irate that John and his friends insisted on playing loud music as she tried to study.

19. Gambol

Meaning: 

You can use this verb if you want to say that someone or something is running and jumping around in a playful manner.

Sentence:

Watching the children gambol with their new puppy really lifted my spirits.

20. Grotesque

Meaning: 

You can use this adjective to say that you think something is very ugly and odd-looking. 

Sentence:

The gargoyles on medieval cathedrals were deliberately carved to be as grotesque as possible.

21. Jubilant

Meaning: 

This adjective is used to imply that someone is extremely, visibly happy about something.

Sentence:

Henry and Paul were so jubilant over their football team winning they were dancing in the street.

22. Justifiable

Meaning: 

When you use this adjective, you are saying that someone’s actions were reasonable or acceptable.

Sentence:

Given the fact that she needed to take her cat to the vet this morning, it was justifiable that Karen was later to our lunch.

23. Laud

Meaning: 

This is a verb that means that someone is praising someone else in a public setting.

Sentence:

The mayor lauded the efforts of the city’s firemen in quickly putting out the blaze.

24. Laconic

Meaning:

This is an adjective that means brief. It’s usually meant to describe a short answer to a question. A laconic person is someone who can be referred to by
the idiom “man of few words”.

Sentence:

The always laconic Pedro just said “yes” to the proposal.

25. Mammoth

Meaning:

This adjective is used to describe something that is very, very big. Synonyms for this word are huge and enormous.

Sentence: 

The huge burger also came with a mammoth heap of fries.

26. Meddlesome

Meaning:

This adjective is used to describe behavior that is considered interfering or intrusive. The English idiom “stick their nose in” describes a meddlesome person.

Sentence: 

The problem with a small town is the many meddlesome neighbors.

27. Misstep

Meaning:

People use this verb when they want to say someone misjudged the situation and did the wrong thing.

Sentence:

Mary made a misstep when she mentioned the professor’s ex-wife.

28. Obtuse

Meaning: 

This adjective is basically a synonym for stupid. Someone who is obtuse doesn’t seem to comprehend what is happening around them.

Sentence:

Bobby is so obtuse he didn’t understand that Fred was making fun of him.

29. Officious

Meaning: 

This is an adjective that is used to describe someone who is overeager and offering unwanted help.

Sentence:

Allan and Betty just wanted to browse, but the officious salesperson trailing them around made them uncomfortable.

30. Opulence

Meaning:

This is a noun that denotes a show of wealth or abundance.

Sentence:

The opulence of the grand hotel had them staring around in awe.

31. Overt

Meaning:

This adjective is used to say that something is obvious. It is a synonym for apparent.

Sentence:

There were no overt signs that Zoe had heard Dan and Ben talking about her.

32. Pallid

Meaning: 

This adjective is used to describe someone who is pale and white. It’s usually meant to say that someone looks unhealthy.

Sentence:

After coming home from the hospital, friends were concerned about how pallid John still looked.

33. Paragon

Meaning: 

A paragon is someone who is considered a perfect example. This noun is a synonym for model.

Sentences:

Superheroes were originally meant to be paragons of humanity.

34. Pariah

Meaning: 

This is a noun that is used to describe someone who is a social outcast or who is being shunned by the majority of their social group.

Sentence:

After Ben was caught trying to pass off Mandy’s work as his own, he became the office pariah.

35. Perfunctory

Meaning:

This adjective is used to describe how someone performs a dull and routine task. Someone performs their duty perfunctory if they do it and do it properly but have little interest in it.  

Sentence:

Alice was a perfunctory employee; she accomplished her tasks and went home.

36. Precocious

Meaning:

This adjective is usually used when describing children. It means that someone displays behavior that is advanced for their age.

Sentence: 

Sally was always precocious; she was reading Shakespeare by age seven.

37. Propensity

Meaning: 

This is a noun that is used to say that someone has a natural inclination or preference for something.

Sentence:

While Sam is very smart, he has a propensity to be dismissive of others’ opinions.

38. Quandary

Meaning:

This is a noun that means a difficult situation or decision.

Sentence:

 Having to decide between his job and an
opportunity to study abroad had Harry in a quandary.

39. Querulous

Meaning: 

This is an adjective that is used to describe someone who is fretful or has a habit of whining or complaining.

Sentence:

While Mindy loved working at the nursing home, Mr. Santos strained her patients with his querulous questions about meals.

40. Ransack

Meaning: 

When you use the verb ransack you are saying that someone was searching for something so frantically, that they made a huge mess.

Sentence:

I ransacked my room looking for my phone and it turned out to be behind the sofa cushions. 

41. Rebuke

Meaning:

This is a verb that means to scold or criticize someone.

Sentence:

Seeing how hurt Peter was at Alice’s words, Lucy rebuked her friend.

42. Revelry 

Meaning:

This is a noun to denote a feeling of festivity or celebration.

Sentence: 

The revelry of the town festival is something you don’t want to miss.

43. Rift

Meaning: 

A rift is a division or a gap. You can use this noun to say that two people disagreed about something and it ruined their relationship.

Sentence:

The rift between Tom and Nick happened when they found themselves competing for the same job.

44. Simpleton

Meaning:

This noun is used for someone who is not very bright or who has a low mental capacity.

Sentence:

He’s a simpleton and doesn’t really understand why people laugh at him.

45. Spurious

Meaning:

The use of this adjective implies that something is false or counterfeit.

Sentence:

Politicians make a lot of spurious promises during the campaign trail.

46. Strain

Meaning:

When someone or something is under strain, they cannot meet the demands of the situation. This noun means that the resources available are just barely meeting the need or are on the verge of running out.

Sentence:

Between losing her job and her mortgage, having to pay for car repairs really strained Jenny’s budget.

47. Teem

Meaning:

You can use this verb to say that something is full or overflowing.

Sentence: 

The bar was teeming with language learners hoping to practice their conversational skills.

48. Tout

Meaning: 

This verb means that someone is praising or promoting a person or a product.

Sentence:

Much of my makeup collection consists of products touted by my favorite beauty bloggers.

49. Tranquil

Meaning: 

This is an adjective that is used to describe someone who is at peace or to say that the mood is peaceful.

Sentence:

The tranquil mood of the quiet beach was just what I needed to destress after a tough week.

50. Unscathed

Meaning:

This adjective describes someone or something that was untouched or unhurt by a bad situation like an accident.

Sentence: 

While Kyle had a small cut on his forehead, Lindsey was unscathed by the accident.

Conclusion

Here is a PDF of these 50 words with meaning and sentences that you can download, print, and study at your leisure.

If you really want to learn how to use these words in daily conversation, however, we suggest you take this list and go through the words with an online native English language speaking tutor. 

A good tutor can provide you with other examples of how to use these words properly and help you work on your pronunciation and accent. 

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  Word Meaning
  Lecture # 6
  Grigoryeva M.

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  Word Meaning

  Approaches to word meaning

  Meaning and Notion (понятие)

  Types of word meaning

  Types of morpheme meaning

  Motivation

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  Each word has two aspects:

  the outer aspect
  ( its sound form)
  cat

  the inner aspect
  (its meaning)
  long-legged, fury animal with sharp teeth
  and claws

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  Sound and meaning do not always constitute a constant unit even in the same language

  EX a temple

  a part of a human head
  a large church

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  Semantics (Semasiology)
  Is a branch of lexicology which studies the
  meaning of words and word equivalents

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  Approaches to Word Meaning
  The Referential (analytical) approach

  The Functional (contextual) approach

  Operational (information-oriented) approach

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  The Referential (analytical) approach
  formulates the essence of meaning by establishing the interdependence between words and things or concepts they denote

  distinguishes between three components closely connected with meaning:
  the sound-form of the linguistic sign,
  the concept
  the actual referent

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  Basic Triangle
  concept (thought, reference) – the thought of the object that singles out its essential features
  referent – object denoted by the word, part of reality
  sound-form (symbol, sign) – linguistic sign
  concept – flower

  sound-form referent
  [rәuz]

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  In what way does meaning correlate with
  each element of the triangle ?

  In what relation does meaning stand to
  each of them?

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  Meaning and Sound-form
  are not identical
  different
  EX. dove — [dΛv] English sound-forms
  [golub’] Russian BUT
  [taube] German
  the same meaning

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  Meaning and Sound-form
  nearly identical sound-forms have different meanings in different languages
  EX. [kot] Russian – a male cat
  [kot] English – a small bed for a child

  identical sound-forms have different meanings (‘homonyms)
  EX. knight [nait]
  night [nait]

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  Meaning and Sound-form
  even considerable changes in sound-form do not affect the meaning

  EX Old English lufian [luvian] – love [l Λ v]

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  Meaning and Concept
  concept is a category of human cognition

  concept is abstract and reflects the most common and typical features of different objects and phenomena in the world

  meanings of words are different in different languages

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  Meaning and Concept
  identical concepts may have different semantic structures in different languages

  EX. concept “a building for human habitation” –
  English Russian
  HOUSE ДОМ

  + in Russian ДОМ
  “fixed residence of family or household”
  In English HOME

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  Meaning and Referent

  one and the same object (referent) may be denoted by more than one word of a different meaning
  cat
  pussy
  animal
  tiger

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  Meaning
  is not identical with any of the three points of the triangle –
  the sound form,
  the concept
  the referent

  BUT
  is closely connected with them.

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  Functional Approach
  studies the functions of a word in speech
  meaning of a word is studied through relations of it with other linguistic units
  EX. to move (we move, move a chair)
  movement (movement of smth, slow movement)

  The distriution ( the position of the word in relation to
  others) of the verb to move and a noun movement is
  different as they belong to different classes of words and
  their meanings are different

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  Operational approach
  is centered on defining meaning through its role in
  the process of communication

  EX John came at 6
  Beside the direct meaning the sentence may imply that:
  He was late
  He failed to keep his promise
  He was punctual as usual
  He came but he didn’t want to

  The implication depends on the concrete situation

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  Lexical Meaning and Notion
  Notion denotes the reflection in the mind of real objects

  Notion is a unit of thinking
  Lexical meaning is the realization of a notion by means of a definite language system
  Word is a language unit

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  Lexical Meaning and Notion
  Notions are international especially with the nations of the same cultural level

  Meanings are nationally limited

  EX GO (E) —- ИДТИ(R)
  “To move”
  BUT !!!
  To GO by bus (E)
  ЕХАТЬ (R)

  EX Man -мужчина, человек
  Она – хороший человек (R)
  She is a good person (E)

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  Types of Meaning
  Types of meaning

  grammatical
  meaning

  lexico-grammatical
  meaning
  lexical meaning
  denotational
  connotational

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  Grammatical Meaning
  component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words

  EX. girls, winters, toys, tables –
  grammatical meaning of plurality

  asked, thought, walked –
  meaning of past tense

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  Lexico-grammatical meaning
  (part –of- speech meaning)
  is revealed in the classification of lexical items into:
  major word classes (N, V, Adj, Adv)
  minor ones (artc, prep, conj)

  words of one lexico-grammatical class have the same paradigm

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  Lexical Meaning
  is the meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions

  EX . Go – goes — went
  lexical meaning – process of movement

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  PRACTICE
  Group the words into 3 column according to the grammatical, lexical or part-of –speech meaning
  Boy’s, nearest, at, beautiful,
  think, man, drift, wrote,
  tremendous, ship’s, the most beautiful,
  table, near, for, went, friend’s,
  handsome, thinking, boy,
  nearer, thought, boys,
  lamp, go, during.

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  Grammatical
  The case of nouns: boy’s, ship’s, friend’s
  The degree of comparison of adj: nearest, the most beautiful
  The tense of verbs: wrote, went, thought

  Lexical
  Think, thinking, thought
  Went, go
  Boy’s, boy, boys
  Nearest, near, nearer
  At, for, during (“time”)
  Beautiful, the most beautiful

  Part-of-speech
  Nouns—verbs—adj—-prep

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  Aspects of Lexical meaning
  The denotational aspect

  The connotational aspect

  The pragmatic aspect

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  Denotational Meaning
  “denote” – to be a sign of, stand as a symbol for”

  establishes the correlation between the name and the object
  makes communication possible

  EX booklet
  “a small thin book that gives info about smth”

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  PRACTICE
  Explain denotational meaning

  A lion-hunter
  To have a heart like a lion
  To feel like a lion
  To roar like a lion
  To be thrown to the lions
  The lion’s share
  To put your head in lion’s mouth

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  PRACTICE

  A lion-hunter
  A host that seeks out celebrities to impress guests
  To have a heart like a lion
  To have great courage
  To feel like a lion
  To be in the best of health
  To roar like a lion
  To shout very loudly
  To be thrown to the lions
  To be criticized strongly or treated badly
  The lion’s share
  Much more than one’s share
  To put your head in lion’s mouth

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  Connotational Meaning
  reflects the attitude of the speaker towards what he speaks about
  it is optional – a word either has it or not

  Connotation gives additional information and includes:
  The emotive charge EX Daddy (for father)
  Intensity EX to adore (for to love)
  Imagery EX to wade through a book
  “ to walk with an effort”

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  PRACTICE
  Give possible interpretation of the sentences

  She failed to buy it and felt a strange pang.
  Don’t be afraid of that woman! It’s just barking!
  He got up from his chair moving slowly, like an old man.
  The girl went to her father and pulled his sleeve.
  He was longing to begin to be generous.
  She was a woman with shiny red hands and work-swollen finger knuckles.

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  PRACTICE
  Give possible interpretation of the sentences
  She failed to buy it and felt a strange pang.
  (pain—dissatisfaction that makes her suffer)
  Don’t be afraid of that woman! It’s just barking!
  (make loud sharp sound—-the behavior that implies that the person is frightened)
  He got up from his chair moving slowly, like an old man.
  (to go at slow speed—was suffering or was ill)
  The girl went to her father and pulled his sleeve.
  (to move smth towards oneself— to try to attract smb’s attention)
  He was longing to begin to be generous.
  (to start doing— hadn’t been generous before)
  She was a woman with shiny red hands and work-swollen finger knuckles.
  (colour— a labourer involved into physical work ,constant contact with water)

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  The pragmatic aspect of lexical meaning

  the situation in which the word is uttered,
  the social circumstances (formal, informal, etc.),
  social relationships between the interlocutors (polite, rough, etc.),
  the type and purpose of communication (poetic, official, etc.)

  EX horse (neutral)
  steed (poetic)
  nag (slang)
  gee-gee (baby language)

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  PRACTICE
  State what image underline the meaning

  I heard what she said but it didn’t sink into my mind.
  You should be ashamed of yourself, crawling to the director like that.
  They seized on the idea.
  Bill, chasing some skirt again?
  I saw him dive into a small pub.
  Why are you trying to pin the blame on me?
  He only married her for her dough.

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  PRACTICE
  State what image underline the meaning
  I heard what she said but it didn’t sink into my mind.
  (to understand completely)
  You should be ashamed of yourself, crawling to the director like that.
  (to behave humbly in order to win favour)
  They seized on the idea.
  (to be eager to take and use)
  Bill, chasing some skirt again?
  (a girl)
  I saw him dive into a small pub.
  (to enter suddenly)
  Why are you trying to pin the blame on me?
  (to blame smb unfairly)
  He only married her for her dough.
  (money)

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  Types of Morpheme Meaning
  lexical
  differential
  functional
  distributional

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  Lexical Meaning in Morphemes
  root-morphemes that are homonymous to words possess lexical meaning
  EX. boy – boyhood – boyish

  affixes have lexical meaning of a more generalized character
  EX. –er “agent, doer of an action”

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  Lexical Meaning in Morphemes
  has denotational and connotational components
  EX. –ly, -like, -ish –
  denotational meaning of similiarity
  womanly , womanish

  connotational component –
  -ly (positive evaluation), -ish (deragotary) женственный — женоподобный

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  Differential Meaning
  a semantic component that serves to distinguish one word from all others containing identical morphemes

  EX. cranberry, blackberry, gooseberry

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  Functional Meaning
  found only in derivational affixes
  a semantic component which serves to
  refer the word to the certain part of speech

  EX. just, adj. – justice, n.

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  Distributional Meaning
  the meaning of the order and the arrangement of morphemes making up the word
  found in words containing more than one morpheme
  different arrangement of the same morphemes would make the word meaningless
  EX. sing- + -er =singer,
  -er + sing- = ?

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  Motivation
  denotes the relationship between the phonetic or morphemic composition and structural pattern of the word on the one hand, and its meaning on the other

  can be phonetical
  morphological
  semantic

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  Phonetical Motivation
  when there is a certain similarity between the sounds that make up the word and those produced by animals, objects, etc.

  EX. sizzle, boom, splash, cuckoo

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  Morphological Motivation
  when there is a direct connection between the structure of a word and its meaning
  EX. finger-ring – ring-finger,

  A direct connection between the lexical meaning of the component morphemes
  EX think –rethink “thinking again”

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  Semantic Motivation
  based on co-existence of direct and figurative meanings of the same word

  EX a watchdog –
  ”a dog kept for watching property”

  a watchdog –
  “a watchful human guardian” (semantic motivation)

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  Analyze the meaning of the words.
  Define the type of motivation
  a) morphologically motivated
  b) semantically motivated

  Driver
  Leg
  Horse
  Wall
  Hand-made
  Careless
  piggish

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  Analyze the meaning of the words.
  Define the type of motivation
  a) morphologically motivated
  b) semantically motivated
  Driver
  Someone who drives a vehicle
  morphologically motivated
  Leg
  The part of a piece of furniture such as a table
  semantically motivated
  Horse
  A piece of equipment shaped like a box, used in gymnastics
  semantically motivated

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  Wall
  Emotions or behavior preventing people from feeling close
  semantically motivated
  Hand-made
  Made by hand, not machine
  morphologically motivated
  Careless
  Not taking enough care
  morphologically motivated
  Piggish
  Selfish
  semantically motivated

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  I heard what she said but it didn’t sink in my mind
  “do down to the bottom”
  ‘to be accepted by mind” semantic motivation

  Why are you trying to pin the blame on me?
  “fasten smth somewhere using a pin” –
  ”to blame smb” semantic motivation

  I was following the man when he dived into a pub.
  “jump into deep water” –
  ”to enter into suddenly” semantic motivation

  You should be ashamed of yourself, crawling to the director like that
  “to move along on hands and knees close to the ground” –
  “to behave very humbly in order to win favor” semantic motivation

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Sentence structure is the course of action of words in a sentence. A sentence is composed of words such as things, verbs, descriptive words and qualifiers.

Using an assortment of words once you talk to your child will offer assistance for your child to learn modern words. Verbs activity words like “dance”, “fall”, and “pour” are particularly vital for building sentences.

Other important words are:

The subject is often referred to as a noun or things that perform actions.

Example: The dog jumped.

The subject of this sentence is the thing, dog since it is jumping.

Example: Goats and buffaloes sleep.

The subjects of this sentence are nouns, goats and buffaloes. Usually called a compound subject since there’s more than one subject performing the same activity.

The object is often referred to as the nouns that receive the action.

Example: She is eating rice and dal.

The objects which are receiving the action in this sentence are the nouns, rice and dal.

Example: The child ate chips.

The object of this sentence is the noun, chips because the child is eating the chips. The chips are receiving the action.

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Five Basic Sentence Structures

1. Subject-Verb (S-V)

Examples:

• The dog plays.
• Akshay laughs.
• Khushi sleeps.

1. Subject-Verb-Object (S-V-O)

Examples:

• The boy bathes the cat.
• I eat bananas.
• Rahul throws the ball.

1. Subject-Verb-Adjective (S-V-Adj)

Examples:

• Mehak is beautiful.
• They are nice.
• I am hungry.

1. Subject-Verb-Adverb (S-V-Adv)

Examples:

• Yesha laughs loudly.
• The bird flies high.
• Flowers are everywhere.

1. Subject-Verb-Noun (S-V-N)

Examples:

• I am the principal.
• My Daddy is a fisherman.
• The girl is a student.

A simple sentence is a sentence that usually consists of just one independent clause. A simple sentence doesn’t have dependent clauses.

Below are Examples of Simple Sentences

• I cannot drink warm milk.
• A day without sunshine is like night.
• I love playing.
• My favourite cartoon is Ninja Hattori.

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Small Sentences for Kindergarten 

1. The pig is pink.
2. Look at the cat.
3. I live in a house.
4. The apple is red.
5. I have 5 flowers.
6. The ball is green.
7. I like to play.
8. The jar has a lid.
9. The swan is white.
10. The van is blue.

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10 Simple English Sentences for Kids Along with Pictures

I’m eating doughnuts.

The sun is hot.

He is my dad.

I see the bus.

I have a bat.

My crayon colour is Red.

The girl has long hair.

This is an ant.

Earth has one moon.

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20 Daily Use Small English Sentences For Kids

1. How about a hug?
2. Sit up straight.
3. Don’t be angry.
4. Study here.
5. Go to the bath.
6. Speak softly.
7. Don’t cry again.
8. Stop talking.
9. Have food.
10. Watch carefully.
11. Don’t tell her.
12. Wait for me.
13. Give it back.
14. Bolt the door.
15. Clean up.
16. Walk slowly.
17. Don’t go.
18. Have your breakfast.
19. Don’t cry again.
20. Wake up

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Conclusion

Understanding sentences is essential because it offers details that make the listener understand and you communicate freely. It is the framework that expresses the exact sense of interaction between two people. Thus, remove mistakes from your speaking and reward your kids with direct communication with the help of the daily used sentences above. Introduce your kids to Simple English Sentences and prepare them for the future. By using some of these simple sentences in your kids daily routine,  you can build your child’s vocabulary and ability to communicate fluently.

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Multiple Meaning Word Lists in Developmental Order

Functional – bat, bowl, can, cold, face, fall, fit, foot, hand, hit, light, mean, park,pet, pitcher, play, punch, ring, rock, roll, run, saw, star, stick, top, trip

Early Elementary – back, bank, bark, bend, block, board, bomb, border, box, bright, brush, cap, capital, change, character, check, checker, clear, count, cover, cycle, degree, direction, draw, drill, even, fall, fire, freeze, force, head, inch, iron, key, kind, letter, lie, line, match, mind, model, motion, mouse, odd, order, past, period, place, point, pole, power, present, property, right, rose, ruler, safe, scale, seal, season, second, shake, ship, side, solid, solution, space, spring, stamp, staple, state, story, stuff, table, tense, track, turn, watch, wave, work

Late Elementary – act, angle, atmosphere, bitter, cast, charge, country, court, credit, current, depression, draft, due, edge, film, flood, friction, front, fuse, gum, interest, judge, negative, lean, matter, motion, organ, party, plane, plot, produce, product, raise, rate, reason, report, school, screen, sense, settle, shock, spell, source, staff, stand, staple, state, tip, wage, volume

Secondary – base, bass, chance, channel, coast, constitution, content, crop, division, formula, gravity, interest, issue, lounge, market, tissue, operation, pitch, process, program, view, value, volume, waste

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Background Information

These are words that have different meanings depending upon their usage in a sentence. Excessive time in understanding multiple meaning words can provide a delay in understanding that disrupts either reading fluency or oral language comprehension. Much of semantic ambiguity involves multiple meaning words.

Many standardized tests assess words with multiple meanings in their vocabulary sections. Language used by textbooks and teachers are rife with ambiguity, as is much of the humor used in social language (Spector, 2007). Familiar, frequently used words tend to have more meanings than less frequent words. For example, one study found that 72% of the most frequently occurring 9,000 words contained multiple meanings (Johnson and Pearson, 1984). Other research has demonstrated the significance of context in acquiring and testing multiple meaning words. Many factors contribute to the difficulty understanding these words, including context, a child’s previous experience with the words in that context, and the degree of meaning overlap between the words’ meanings (Johnson et al., 1997).

Practice with multiple meaning words accomplishes several things:

1) encourages metalinguistic skills, such as thinking about why certain words have certain labels

2) kills two birds with one stone – learn two words for the price of one

3) prepares for common sections of standardized vocabulary tests

4) provides bridge for working with context

Sometimes words that can be used as verbs or nouns are called multiple meaning words (for example, open, dance, and layer). These words aren’t typically confused for one another. When hearing “The door was opened.” a listener doesn’t typically confuse the possible noun or verb meanings of “opened.” Assessments with multiple meaning words include the LPT, OWLS, and TOLD-I.

Goal Suggestions

Eugene will identify another meaning of functional multiple meaning words when given one meaning.

Charlotte will identify two meanings of age appropriate multiple meaning words.

Dayton will provide one definition of age appropriate multiple meaning words when given another definition.

Pierre will provide two definitions of age appropriate multiple meaning words.

Multiple Meaning Drill Ideas