What does “recess to” mean in this sentence?

“Recess” is the period during the school day when children play outside. This person stayed inside during this period to catch up on their work.

Recess is a period of the school day when kids in school get to have free time, usually outside. The author [stayed inside] [for recess] [to work on their project].

Worth mentioning that this is an american word, you won't hear kids in the UK saying it - it's just called "break" here. Commenters are right though, it's pronounced "ree-sess" and it just means break time, but only in the context of school, not work.

It should be noted that in addition to school, "recess" also means a rest period in the context of a court or a legislative body. If you watch American police procedurals you'll often hear "this court is in recess until \[some date or time\]" and if you read or watch American news you'll often see or hear "Congress is currently in recess."

the meaning of recess depends on context. here, it's appears to be in the context of elementary school, which teaches children who are generally aged between 5 and 12 years old. the exact age range varies on region. recess in the context of school would be time for the kids to get out of the classroom and play outside.

Recess is free time but for children it when they go to play outside

Recess is break time as previously stated, I think you were confused because of the "for". In this instance, you can replace it by "during", hope that makes it clearer.

The "to" here goes with "work" and not with "recess": the person stayed inside during the break for the purpose of doing work

Break time

In this context, recess is a period during the day at school when kids go outside to play. Usually in the middle of the day, after eating lunch. It usually lasts around 30-40 minutes, but that can vary. As a cultural note, in the U.S., recess is something only for younger kids. I'm sure this also varies, but where I grew up, we only had recess during grade school (up to 11 or 12 years old).

It's not parsed that way. "To" introduces a purpose clause "to work on my assignment". So she was kept in from recess - a break during the school day where kids can play with each other and toys or outdoors - and why? To work on her project.

It could be “I stayed indoors for recess in order to work on my project.” Recess is a playtime/break for schoolchildren that usually occurs around lunch, and outside when the weather allows.

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“recess” here is a noun. In the US it’s a school break to go outside and play.

Recess means Break time or interval (generally used in school) Here recess to means starting from recess to _____

It's "recess" and "to work". In an elementary school, "recess" is a time period when children are released from class for supervised play. To recess is to temporarily suspend official proceedings (could be a formal meeting, legislative processes, or class instruction). Here, the child stayed indoors for recess (play time).

In American English, there are really only two contexts where we use “recess” to refer to a break period: in elementary school (it becomes just a “break” in later grades) and in courtroom proceedings, where a judge might call a “recess” for everyone to take a break and review documents or have an aside with the lawyers.

In American English, recess is a break that children are given during the school day. Some children will play outdoors, others will just socialize b

“Recess” is a noun, “to work” is a verb in the infinitive form, hopefully that helps you to separate the two. So in other words the meaning of the sentence is “the reason that I stayed indoors during recess was to work on my project.” “For” in this case can be replaced with “during”, it is indicating a period of time when something took place.

There is a comma missing there. It should be: I stayed indoors for recess, to work on my project. Where "recess" is being used in the sense of "break" - as in "the court is in recess" or the "kids are playing in the yard during recess".

It’s an American word that just means “break”

For me, recess was like a 15 minute break at around 10am. Lunch was 30 minutes at 12pm. Varies from school to school but I think it usually stops by the time you get to middle school or high school.

\[I stayed\]A \[indoors\]B \[during recess\]C \[to work\]D \[on my project.\]E A is the verb and who is performing it B is a direct subject That would be a complete sentence. "I stayed indoors." C adds a timeframe / duration. How long did I stay indoors? D and E are prepositional phrases to add more context. They're not needed as part of the sentence, but help understand the reason you stayed indoors. C, D, and E are not needed, but E won't work without D - you might say "to work on my project" is the phrase, but the "to work" can be there on its own as well. "I stayed indoors to work." "I stayed indoors during recess." "I stayed indoors to work on my project." "I stayed indoors to work on my project during recess." Now... As others noted, "recess" is a time to "exercise" or otherwise burn off energy for kids, as part of a school day. More obliquely, it's a period of time not counted as part of the main event, and you can recess a meeting, a court trial, etc. "We'll be in recess until tomorrow at 9AM." "We'll take a 20 minute recess and resume the presentation." I hope that helps explain the term better, as well as the sentence structure around it.

“I stayed inside [during] recess [in order] to work on my project” Does this help? The “for” seems a little colloquial, not something I’d think would commonly be used to teach ESL (edit: I see this is from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I haven’t read it haha!) I think the other responses have fully explained that “recess” is the time of a school day when children typically go outside to play and *not* work. Recess usually describes a break time

Break time. American.

[https://www.etymonline.com/word/recess](https://www.etymonline.com/word/recess) Meaning "hidden or remote part" is recorded from 1610s; that of "period of stopping from usual work" is from 1620s, probably from parliamentary notion of "recessing" into private chambers. So in parliament they would stop their public work and go back to their private offices for a break. Then it get reused in courts when people go into the judges chambers. It get reused again in schools when children take a break from their work.

Break time

It doesn't. "I stayed indoors for recess" is one clause and "to work on my project" is another. The "to" is part of the infinitive "to work." It's not referring to recess.

It's 'to work', not 'recess to'. In any case, the way this is constructed might pose a challenge to some ESL learners -- 'to' is an infinitive marker in this sentence and technically requires further information, i.e. 'in order/so i were able/so as/\[etc\]', but this isn't written formally or in an advanced manner so you won't see that. Were this more formal or advanced, you'd see it written more in line with: >I stayed indoors during recess so as to work on my project. If you're ever in doubt, expand the sentence to include that information, and see if it makes sense.

You've parsed it incorrectly. It is 'for recess' and 'to work', not 'recess to'. We have two ideas: * "I stayed indoors for recess." * "The reason for this, was to work on my project." We can combine these two thoughts into the single sentence you've shown us.

IN ORDER TO work...

“Recess” is a time where young students get to play outside with their friends. “I stayed indoors for recess (playtime)”

I think it would have been more clear if it had said "stayed inside *during* recess" recess is more of a 'period of time' rather than 'the name' of the class. In my opinion only. I could be wrong.

There should be a kind of mental comma after the word *recess* here: ***I stayed indoors for recess, to work on my project.*** A recess is a break in lessons at a school or university (especially in American English, which is appropriate here because I believe the picture with the quote is taken from one of the *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* books, which are set in the USA)

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I stayed inside for recess; to work on ... It is not 'recess to'. Recess is a defined period of not studying, like 'playtime' at school.

“recess” is a noun, means time for kids to go outside and play

Recess is a time period where little kids can play outside or just do whatever they want. Think of it as a break. Here the author is saying they used the recess time to work on their project

The use of “to” is the same as saying “so that I can” (since everyone’s already explain the recess part)

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It’s what American schools call break time (or playtime for younger schools)

Is this Diary of a Wimpy Kid? 😂