We took a boat across/through the river?
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We took a boat across/through the river?
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- We took a boat across the river
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- 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.
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