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# sitting

«sitting» in Mova's school dictionary: **resting your bottom on a chair, the floor or another…** — 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

verb form (-ing form of sit: sit, sits, sat, sitting); noun (a sitting, sittings); adjective (sitting room)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sitting means resting your bottom on a chair, the floor or another seat, with your back up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#m1)

2) Sitting can mean staying in a place or position: the book was sitting on the shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#m2)

3) A sitting is one of the times when a meal is served to a group, or one session of doing something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and school: «sitting still», «sitting on the carpet», «sitting in your seat with your seat belt on». In health lessons, sitting too long is not good; get up and move. In stories «sitting» sets the scene (sitting by the fire). In the UK a «sitting room» is a living room. Phrases: sit down, sitting up, sitting still, sitting room, at one sitting, babysitting.

### examples

- The children were sitting on the carpet for the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x1)
- Please stay sitting while the bus is moving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x2)
- My cat is sitting on the window sill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x3)
- I read the whole book at one sitting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x4)
- We were sitting by the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x5)
- Sitting for hours in front of a screen is not healthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x6)
- The keys were sitting on the table the whole time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x7)
- She is babysitting her little cousin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x8)
- ‘Who’s been sitting on my little chair?’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x9)

### note

Double the «t»: sit → sitting. Past: sat. «Sitting» (on a seat) and «setting» (put something down, or the place of a story) are different words. «Seated» is the more formal word.

### In the corpora

- [If sitting brings a treat, the dog sits more; if jumping up brings attention, it jumps more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience/1/)
- [When you ride a pony you are sitting on thousands of years of history.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/0/)
- [They find the Mock Turtle sitting sad and lonely on a ledge of rock, sighing as if his heart would break.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/3/)
- [Sitting by the driver, Toad asks sweetly if «she» may try driving, just to tell her friends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/0/)
- [Mole and Badger were sitting by the fire, unarmed and taken by surprise; there were hundreds against two.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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