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# besides

«besides» in Mova's school dictionary: **as well as, in addition to: Besides apples, we bought pears** — 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

preposition (besides); adverb (besides)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Besides means as well as, in addition to: Besides apples, we bought pears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#m1)

2) Besides means except, apart from, in negative sentences and questions: Nobody besides Tom came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#m2)

3) As an adverb at the start of a sentence, besides means also, and here is another reason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk and stories, besides adds extra things or another reason to an argument. In writing lessons it is a joining word for giving more reasons in persuasive writing. In maths word problems, besides tells you to add something on. Phrases: besides that, and besides.

### examples

- Besides football, I also play tennis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#x1)
- Who else is coming besides your cousin? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#x2)
- Nobody besides me knew the answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#x3)
- I don't want to go out; besides, it's raining. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#x4)
- Besides being clever, she is very kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#x5)
- What do you like to eat besides pizza? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#x6)
- Tom has 4 pets besides his dog, so he has 5 pets in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#x7)
- Besides, Kotick was a white seal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besides/#x8)

### note

Trap: besides (with s) means in addition or except; beside (no s) means next to: Sit beside me. In maths, besides usually means add the extra amount, but check for except in questions like who besides.

### In the corpora

- [Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.658/)
- [But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.808/)
- [Then I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, besides Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.213/)
- [But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.374/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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