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# independently

«independently» in Mova's school dictionary: **On your own, without help from others** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (independently)

### meaning for a pupil

1) On your own, without help from others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/independently/#m1)

2) Separately; without being connected to or affected by something else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/independently/#m2)

3) Of a country: ruling itself, not ruled by another country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/independently/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

At school: «Work independently» means do it by yourself without copying. In science: two scientists independently discovered the same thing. In maths and probability: independent events do not affect each other. Phrases: work independently, independently of.

### examples

- Please work independently for ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/independently/#x1)
- She learned to read independently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/independently/#x2)
- Two inventors independently came up with the same idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/independently/#x3)
- Each light works independently of the others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/independently/#x4)
- My little brother can now dress independently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/independently/#x5)
- The country has governed itself independently for many years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/independently/#x6)
- The question is whether the method was adopted independently in Ireland, or was due to foreign influences. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/independently/#x7)

### note

From independent + -ly. Noun: independence. In maths, events that happen independently (two coin tosses) do not change each other's chances.

### Trees and pragmatics

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