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GO ALONG
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pass by
Example:
three years elapsed
Synonyms:
elapse; glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go along" is one way to...):
advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go along"):
fell; fly; vanish (pass away rapidly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cooperate or pretend to cooperate
Example:
He decided to play along with the burglars for the moment
Synonyms:
go along; play along
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "go along" is one way to...):
collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces (work together on a common enterprise of project)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Continue a certain state, condition, or activity
Example:
We went on working until well past midnight
Synonyms:
continue; go along; go on; keep; proceed
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "go along" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Verb group:
bear on; carry on; continue; preserve; uphold (keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last)
continue (continue after an interruption)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go along"):
hold (remain in a certain state, position, or condition)
keep going; run on (continue uninterrupted)
ride (continue undisturbed and without interference)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Context examples:
“Oh, put me on the rim of your hat; that will be a nice gallery for me; I can walk about there and see the country as we go along.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Rarely have I seen a month so glorious, where each day seems to be in competition to bring even better and brighter news as you go along.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I think I drowse myself, for all of sudden I feel guilt, as though I have done something; I find myself bolt up, with the reins in my hand, and the good horses go along jog, jog, just as ever.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Now, I have been thinking that perhaps, as they don't want you here at present, you might be let to go along with me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Go along, you dog, do! cried the little creature, making a whisk at him with the handkerchief with which she was wiping her face, and don't be impudent!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of my wanting to carry Jip (who is to go along with us), and Dora's saying no, that she must carry him, or else he'll think she don't like him any more, now she is married, and will break his heart.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You'll go along with me?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We were sitting as before, one evening (when my mother was out as before), in company with the stocking and the yard-measure, and the bit of wax, and the box with St. Paul's on the lid, and the crocodile book, when Peggotty, after looking at me several times, and opening her mouth as if she were going to speak, without doing it—which I thought was merely gaping, or I should have been rather alarmed—said coaxingly: Master Davy, how should you like to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother's at Yarmouth?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If her uncle was turned out of house and home, and forced to lay down in a dyke, Mas'r Davy, said Mr. Peggotty, with no less pride than before, it's my belief she'd go along with him, now!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I am thankful for myself, at any rate, that I can find my tiny way through the world, without being beholden to anyone; and that in return for all that is thrown at me, in folly or vanity, as I go along, I can throw bubbles back.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
