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# again

«again» in Mova's school dictionary: **one more time, once more** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Again means one more time, once more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#m1)

2) Again means back to how it was before: she was well again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#m2)

3) In «again and again» it means many times over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

repeating the same addition, which is the idea of multiplying («4 + 4 + 4 … again and again»); in class «try again», «say it again», «read it again»; in everyday life «see you again», «never again», «here we go again»; in stories something happening again builds a pattern

### examples

- Multiplying is adding the same number again and again: 4 + 4 + 4 = 12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#x1)
- Lena reads 5 pages, then 5 pages again, and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#x2)
- Tom saves 3 coins on Monday and again on Tuesday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#x3)
- Not quite: try again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#x4)
- Can you say that again, please? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#x5)
- After the rain the sun came out again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#x6)
- The baby woke up again and again in the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#x7)
- I hope we can play together again soon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#x8)
- The hateful telling broke out again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/#x9)

### note

«again and again» with the same number points to multiplying (repeated equal adding). Trap: «again» once just repeats one amount; count how many times it happens in all (the first time plus the times «again»). Spelling: «again», pronounced «a-GEN».

### In the corpora

- [Being turned down is normal for everyone, and being picked is the reward for trying again and again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/3/)
- [Coming home with flowers the day after a row is making up, a way of saying sorry and wanting to be friends again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/9/)
- [Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/15/)
- [They disagree honestly, and the next election lets everyone choose again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/7/)
- [«That Mr Hollis has parked in Number 9's space AGAIN.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «again» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/again/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.