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Gene93 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
to come along (arrive/come)
Hello,
As far as I know, to come along also means "to arrive". Just to make sure, can we say "I waited half an hour for a bus, then three arrived/came at once." If we use "come along" instead, will the meaning of the sentence change? How would you differentiate between them?
"He wanted to give the money to the first stranger who came along" - I think it has the meaning of "turn up" or "pop up" here. Someone he wasn't expecting, someone random. Can we use turn up here?
Thank you
As far as I know, to come along also means "to arrive". Just to make sure, can we say "I waited half an hour for a bus, then three arrived/came at once." If we use "come along" instead, will the meaning of the sentence change? How would you differentiate between them?
"He wanted to give the money to the first stranger who came along" - I think it has the meaning of "turn up" or "pop up" here. Someone he wasn't expecting, someone random. Can we use turn up here?
Thank you
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I don't really use it often. Most of my native friends don't use it either, so I was probably guessing and following definitions. The ones from the UK use it sometimes, which makes me think it might be a regional thing, but that doesn't matter to me. One last question, Clive. Doesn't "I waited for 30 minutes for a bus, then three came at once" sound odd? I wouldn't use it myself, but it might be o
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