along
part of speech
preposition, adverb (along)
meaning for a pupil
1) Along means following the length of something, like walking along a road. tree →
2) Along means together with someone: «bring a friend along». tree →
3) Along means forward, onward: «move along». tree →
4) «All along» means the whole time. tree →
sense in the lessons
a length or a path; also things placed in a row by a road or a fence; phrases «get along» (be friendly), «come along», «along with», «all along», «sing along»
examples
- 'Let me pass through thy land; I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. (Torah DEU.2.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. (Torah EXO.2.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South; and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.' (Torah NUM.13.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- And it went out from Beth-el-luz, and passed along unto the border of the Archites to Ataroth. (Prophets JOS.16.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- And it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down unto the Arabah. (Prophets JOS.18.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- And from thence it passed along eastward to Gath-hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon-methoar unto Neah. (Prophets JOS.19.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- Trees grow along the road every 5 meters. tree →
- She walked 3 miles along the river. tree →
- He brought along 2 friends. tree →
- Posts stand along a fence 40 feet long. tree →
- We walked along the beach. tree →
- Do you get along with your sister? tree →
- Come along, we're late! tree →
- She knew the answer all along. tree →
- Let's sing along to the song. tree →
- Bring your swimsuit along with a towel. tree →
- Two Travelers were walking along the seashore. tree →
note
«along a length» with «every» gives a spacing problem. Trap: trees along a road with both ends counted are one more than length ÷ spacing. «Get along» means be friends, no number.
In the corpora
- And it went out from Beth-el-luz, and passed along unto the border of the Archites to Ataroth.
- From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.
- And it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down unto the Arabah.
- An octopus has eight arms with suckers all along them, and scientists call them arms, not tentacles.
- Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «along» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.