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We took a boat across/through the river?

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Answered by Casper608
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Question

We took a boat across/through the river?

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  • We took a boat across the river

Reason

  • Cambridge Dictionary
  • Search Grammar
  • Across, over or through?
  • Grammar > Easily confused words > Across, over or through?
  • from English Grammar Today
  • Across
  • We use across as a preposition (prep) and an adverb (adv). Across means on the other side of something, or from one side to the other of something which has sides or limits such as a city, road or river:
  • We took a boat
  • [PREP]
  • across the river.
  • [PREP]
  • Across the room, she could see some old friends. She got up and went to join them.
  • My neighbour came
  • [ADV]
  • across to see me this morning to complain about our cat.
  • The road was so busy that we found it difficult to get
  • [ADV]
  • across.
  • We also use across when something touches or stretches from one side to another:
  • The Ponte Vecchio is a beautiful old bridge across the river Arno in Florence.
  • She divided the page by drawing a red line across it. Then she cut it in two.
  • Especially in American English, across from is used to refer to people or objects being ‘opposite’ or ‘on the other side’:
  • The pharmacy is across from the Town Hall.
  • Helen’s office is just across from mine.
  • We use across to emphasise that something is happening at the same time in many places, e.g. within an organisation, a city or a country:
  • She’s opened coffee shops across the city and they’re very successful.
  • Across the country, people are coming out to vote for a new president.
  • We also use across to refer to the width or diagonal measurement of something:
  • The size of a television screen is measured from the higher corner of one side to the lower corner of the other side, that is, from one corner across to the opposite corner.
  • Across comes after measurements when we talk about diameter or width:
  • The building is 157 metres long, 92 metres across and the façade is 68 metres wide.
Answered by wickedvanilla608
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