onward

«onward» in Mova's school dictionary: forward, going further on — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (onward, onwards); adjective (onward)

meaning for a pupil

1) Onward means forward, going further on. tree →

2) Onward means from a time and later: «from Monday onward». tree →

3) An onward journey is the next part of a trip. tree →

sense in the lessons

«from then onward» marks a time from which a rule starts; in stories: «onward they marched» (they kept going); in everyday life: «from age 5 onwards», «onward flight»; it tells the reader that something goes on after a starting point

examples

• From Monday onward she saves $2 a day. tree →
• From page 10 onward the book has pictures. tree →
• The ship sailed onward. tree →
• From then onward he ran every day. tree →
• The tickets are for children aged 5 onwards. tree →
• After a short rest, the explorers went onward. tree →
• Our onward train leaves in ten minutes. tree →
• From that day onward, the two were best friends. tree →
• So they sailed onwards a long way farther. tree →

note

Marks the start of a repeated change; count the days from that point (the start day included unless told otherwise). «Onwards» (with s) is more common in the UK, «onward» in the USA; the adjective has no s («onward journey»).

In the corpora

• And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
• And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys.
• For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, they came onward together.
• And the children of Benjamin from Geba onward, at Michmas and Aijah, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «onward» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.