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
- 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
- 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.
- In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields.
- Elephant families walk behind the matriarch along old paths that lead to water, salt licks and fruit trees.
- Each heartbeat squeezes blood out and sends a wave along the arteries, which you feel as your pulse.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «along» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.