ahead
part of speech
adverb (ahead; ahead of)
meaning for a pupil
1) Ahead means in front, or further on: a runner who is ahead is in front of the others. tree →
2) Ahead means in the future, still to come. tree →
3) Ahead means winning, with more points. tree →
4) «Go ahead» means you may start or do it. tree →
sense in the lessons
a difference between two amounts in a race or a game; also time still to come; phrases «ahead of», «go ahead», «plan ahead», «look ahead», «ahead of time», «get ahead»
examples
- Lily is 30 meters ahead of Sam. tree →
- The Reds are 7 points ahead. tree →
- He reads 20 pages ahead of the class. tree →
- There are 3 days ahead before the trip. tree →
- Go ahead and start eating. tree →
- Look ahead when you ride your bike. tree →
- We planned ahead for the trip. tree →
- The road ahead is closed. tree →
- We finished the project ahead of time. tree →
- She was two steps ahead of her brother. tree →
- While the witch was swimming across the water, Prince Ivan got a long way ahead. tree →
note
«X ahead of Y» tells a difference: X = Y + the amount ahead. Trap: to find the one behind, you take away, not add. The opposite is «behind».
In the corpora
- Clever birds make tools, plan ahead, remember thousands of hiding places and recognise faces, and they learn from watching others.
- The Mole, who knows it's bad manners to talk about trouble ahead, changes the subject.
- «it is quite against animal-etiquette to dwell on possible trouble ahead» — etiquette = the rules of polite behaviour.
- Ahead lies the Wild Wood, «low and threatening, like a black reef».
- The Rat has a plan: go down into a lumpy little valley ahead and find a dry cave or hole to rest in.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ahead» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.