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along
Preposition
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If one thing happens along with another, they go together.
Along with his daughter, he is studying French.
She gave him a shirt along with the pants.
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If you go along with something, you agree with or follow it.
We're going to go along with your plan.
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You use along to show movement from one end of a long thing towards the other end.
Along the road were just a few cars.
They walked to school, and along the way, she told him about her idea.
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If something was true all along, it true from the beginning.
He knew the real story all along.
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If two people get along, they are friendly with each other.
I don't go to her house because we don't get along.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
river
Noun
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A channel of water.
We go swimming in the river.
The river bends there.
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A lot of something.
He won a river of votes.
during
Preposition
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If you do something during something else, you do it at the same time.
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He often reads during dinner.
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I'm always tired because I work during the night.
Qingming
properNoun
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The first day of the fifth solar term in the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar, the 15th day after the Spring equinox (April 4 or 5).
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Tomb Sweeping Day, an annual Chinese holiday observed on that day.
festival
Noun
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A festival is an organized event that contains a number of performances and usually happens every year.
Many actors are in town for the Toronto international film festival.
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A festival is a period of celebration that marks a special occasion, often religious traditions.
Next week our town celebrates the annual winter festival.