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# beginning

«beginning» in Mova's school dictionary: **the first part or the start of something** — 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 (beginning, beginnings); verb (begin, begins, began, begun, beginning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The beginning is the first part or the start of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#m1)

2) Beginning is also the -ing form of begin: «It is beginning to rain». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the start of the story, before anything happened: «at first», «at the start», «in the beginning» ask for the count before the events; a story has a beginning, a middle and an end; phrases: «in the beginning», «at the beginning of», «from beginning to end», «beginning to»

### examples

- How many cards did Ben have in the beginning? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#x1)
- In the beginning, there were 15 birds on the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#x2)
- At the beginning of the day, Zoe had 20 cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#x3)
- Every story has a beginning, a middle and an end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#x4)
- Read the book from beginning to end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#x5)
- It is beginning to snow! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#x6)
- At the beginning of the year, we got new books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#x7)
- The beginning of the film was scary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#x8)
- The apples were beginning to roast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/#x9)

### note

Spelling: double n (beginning). «at first», «at the start», «in the beginning» ask for the count before the events. Trap: undo the changes to find it: add back what went away, take away what came.

### In the corpora

- [The Caterpillar says "It is wrong from beginning to end."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/17/)
- [The King: «Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/33/)
- [In longer words, double only if the stress falls on the last syllable: begin, beginning; but garden, gardening.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/21/)
- [The dove and the olive branch became symbols of peace and new beginnings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/10/)
- [IN THE beginning God created the heaven and the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beginning» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beginning/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.