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# writing

«writing» in Mova's school dictionary: **The activity or skill of putting words on paper or a screen** — 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 (writing; a writing — rare; writings); verb, -ing form of write (write, writes, wrote, written, writing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The activity or skill of putting words on paper or a screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#m1)

2) Words that are written: "There was writing on the wall." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#m2)

3) A person's handwriting: "I can't read your writing." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#m3)

4) Books, stories, poems or articles that someone has written; "writings" are someone's written works. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#m4)

5) The job of being a writer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In school, "writing" is a whole subject: creative writing, persuasive writing, story writing, joined-up writing. Teachers mark your writing for ideas, spelling, punctuation and handwriting. "In writing" means written down, which makes it official: "Please put your request in writing." "The writing is on the wall" means trouble is clearly coming (from a story in the Bible, Daniel 5). Phrases: "in writing", "creative writing", "joined-up writing", "the writing is on the wall".

### examples

- We did some creative writing about a dragon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#x1)
- Your writing is much neater this term. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#x2)
- I can't read the writing on this old letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#x3)
- Please put your complaint in writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#x4)
- Roald Dahl's writing makes children laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#x5)
- She is writing a story about her cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#x6)
- The writing on the board was too small to see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#x7)
- After losing six games, the writing was on the wall for the team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#x8)
- And that means a lot of writing to the papers and things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writing/#x9)

### note

Spelling: one t (writing), but "written" has two t's. The w is silent. Uncountable in the activity sense: "Writing is fun." Past of write: wrote; past participle: written. Homophone trap: "write" sounds like "right" and "rite".

### In the corpora

- [Chatbots are good at writing stories because they learned from huge numbers of stories.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/5/)
- [Personal writing must come from your own life, because only you know your own stories.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/16/)
- [Teachers often allow AI for brainstorming but not for writing your work; ask first when unsure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/12/)
- [Writing on your own builds your writing muscles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/3/)
- [Changing a few words in someone else's writing does not make it yours; it is still copying.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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