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# alone

«alone» in Mova's school dictionary: **alone, nobody is with you** — 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

adjective, adverb (alone)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Alone means without anyone else: if you are alone, nobody is with you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#m1)

2) Alone means without help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#m2)

3) Alone means only, just that one: «You alone know the secret». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#m3)

4) «Leave alone» means do not touch or bother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x1)
- Mia ate 4 cookies alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x2)
- The garden alone costs 50 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x3)
- Working alone, Tom picks 30 apples an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x4)
- Leave the cat alone, it is sleeping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x5)
- She walked home alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x6)
- You are not alone, we will help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x7)
- The old man lived alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x8)
- Never swim alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x9)
- He can't ride a bike, let alone drive a car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x10)
- Peter was alone on the lagoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alone/#x11)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/11/)
- [Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021 aged 99, and the Queen sat alone at his funeral because of Covid distancing rules.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/16/)
- [And if people gossip about you, you never have to deal with it alone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/7/)
- [Jungle and survival shows have doctors, crews and safety rules behind the camera, even when the people look all alone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/15/)
- [That is AI at its best: a patient pattern-spotter helping people do something they could not do alone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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