alone
part of speech
adjective, adverb (alone)
meaning for a pupil
1) Alone means without anyone else: if you are alone, nobody is with you. tree →
2) Alone means without help. tree →
3) Alone means only, just that one: «You alone know the secret». tree →
4) «Leave alone» means do not touch or bother. tree →
sense in the lessons
the work or amount of one person without help; in work problems the time one worker needs; in safety lessons, never go off alone; phrases «all alone», «leave alone», «let alone», «on your own»
examples
- Sam alone can paint the fence in 6 hours. tree →
- Mia ate 4 cookies alone. tree →
- The garden alone costs 50 dollars. tree →
- Working alone, Tom picks 30 apples an hour. tree →
- Leave the cat alone, it is sleeping. tree →
- She walked home alone. tree →
- You are not alone, we will help. tree →
- The old man lived alone. tree →
- Never swim alone. tree →
- He can't ride a bike, let alone drive a car. tree →
- Peter was alone on the lagoon. tree →
note
Marks one part apart from the others. Trap: «alone» in a work problem gives one worker's rate; together the time is shorter, not the sum of the times. Safety: do not go alone with strangers, and tell an adult where you are going. «Alone» is not the same as «lonely» (sad from being alone).
In the corpora
- One worker alone has little power, but many together are much harder to ignore.
- Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021 aged 99, and the Queen sat alone at his funeral because of Covid distancing rules.
- And if people gossip about you, you never have to deal with it alone.
- Jungle and survival shows have doctors, crews and safety rules behind the camera, even when the people look all alone.
- That is AI at its best: a patient pattern-spotter helping people do something they could not do alone.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «alone» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.