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# altogether

«altogether» in Mova's school dictionary: **counting everything together as one total** — 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) Altogether means counting everything together as one total. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#m1)

2) Altogether means completely: the noise stopped altogether. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#m2)

3) Altogether can mean on the whole, when you think of everything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

the total of two or more parts or groups (a strong «add» cue in word problems); in everyday life «stop altogether», «a different thing altogether»; at the shop «that's 5 dollars altogether»

### examples

- Anna found 8 cards and then found 6 more. How many cards did Anna find altogether? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#x1)
- Ben has 7 pens and Lucy has 9 pens. How many pens do they have altogether? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#x2)
- There are 4 boxes with 6 crayons in each. How many crayons are there altogether? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#x3)
- That will be 12 dollars altogether, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#x4)
- The rain stopped altogether by lunchtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#x5)
- It was a wonderful day altogether. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#x6)
- Our class raised 85 pounds altogether at the bake sale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#x7)
- It was altogether a ridiculous concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/altogether/#x8)

### note

A strong total cue: join the parts (add), or multiply when the parts are equal groups. Trap: it can follow a removal, as in «how many are left altogether», which is still subtraction first. Do not mix «altogether» (in total, completely) with «all together» (everyone in one place or at once: «Sing all together!»).

### In the corpora

- [The Mole «missed the surface altogether»; he grabbed the side of the boat, «and the next moment—Sploosh!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/22/)
- [Many very common verbs ignore -ed altogether: swim, swam; run, ran; go, went; catch, caught.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/14/)
- [Supply, weather and winter often stopped real campaigns altogether.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/40-the-game-map-and-the-real-map-what-eu5-simplifies/11/)
- [I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.846/)
- [I would with one step burn it altogether.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.548/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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