/saʊnd/
Translation
A sound is anything that you can hear with your ears.
Word origin
Sound comes through French from a Latin word for noise.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- sonus
Grammar
Examples
.
Something I could hear seemed odd to me.
calming.
What you hear from the waves makes you feel calm.
.
She moved quietly and nothing could be heard.
A sound is anything your ears can pick up, from soft music to a loud bang. The world is full of sounds, big and small.
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Grammar articles
(34)Adjective order in English: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose
Advanced articles in English: the zero article, the with names and places, and go to school vs go to the school
Articles in English: a, an, the and the zero article
As vs like in English: swims like a fish, works as a waiter, and the truth about like I said
British vs American grammar: have got, gotten, the team are, and the other quiet differences
Causative have and get in English: have something done, get something done and having someone do it
Cleft sentences in English: it was X who, what I need is, and how to move the emphasis
Comparatives and superlatives in English: the complete guide
Compound nouns in English: car park, coffee cup, and why GREENhouse is not green HOUSE
This, That, These and Those: How to Point at Things in English
Dummy subjects in English: it's raining, there's a problem, and why the subject slot is never empty
Ellipsis and substitution in English: I think so, neither do I, and the words you are allowed to leave out
Emphasis in English: I do like it, my own, the very, and how to push back
For, since, already, yet and still in English: which word, and where it goes in the sentence
Future continuous and future perfect in English: will be doing vs will have done
Future tense in English: will, going to and more explained
Hedging and vague language in English: sort of, a bit, -ish, stuff and or so
Indirect questions in English: Could you tell me where the station is, and the word order that goes with it
Inversion and word order in English: the subject-verb-object spine and when it flips
Modals of deduction in English: must be, might be, could be and can't be
Nominalisation in English: arrive becomes arrival, decide becomes decision, and why written English turns actions into things
Participle clauses in English: -ing and -ed clauses, and the dangling participle trap
Advanced passive structures in English: the get-passive, it is said that, and passives with two objects
Past simple tense: rules, examples and when to use it
Phrasal Verbs with Come: 13 Meanings You Actually Need
Phrasal verbs in English: what they are, meanings, rules and examples
Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many and more
Question tags in English: the mirror rule, aren't I, and tags after let's and imperatives
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns in English: myself, yourself, each other, and when English does not bother
Relative clauses in English: defining, non-defining and when to drop the pronoun
So, such, too and enough in English: words of degree and result
Used to, would and be used to: talking about past habits and states in English
Verb patterns with objects in English: want somebody to do, make somebody do, and see somebody doing
Word formation with prefixes: un-, in-, im-, dis-, re-, over-, under- and mis-
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