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# along

«along» in Mova's school dictionary: **following the length of something, like walking along a road** — 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

preposition, adverb (along)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Along means following the length of something, like walking along a road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#m1)

2) Along means together with someone: «bring a friend along». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#m2)

3) Along means forward, onward: «move along». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#m3)

4) «All along» means the whole time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x1)
- She walked 3 miles along the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x2)
- He brought along 2 friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x3)
- Posts stand along a fence 40 feet long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x4)
- We walked along the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x5)
- Do you get along with your sister? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x6)
- Come along, we're late! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x7)
- She knew the answer all along. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x8)
- Let's sing along to the song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x9)
- Bring your swimsuit along with a towel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x10)
- Two Travelers were walking along the seashore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/along/#x11)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/7/)
- [Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/17/)
- [In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/5/)
- [Elephant families walk behind the matriarch along old paths that lead to water, salt licks and fruit trees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/13/)
- [Each heartbeat squeezes blood out and sends a wave along the arteries, which you feel as your pulse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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