If you go alongto a meeting, event, or place, you attend or visit it.
I went along to the meeting. [VERBPARTICLE + to]
You should go along and have a look. [VERBPARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb [usually cont]
If you describe how something is going along, you describe how it is progressing.
Things were going along fairly well. [VERBPARTICLE adverb]
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go along in British English
verb
(intr, adverb; often foll bywith)
to refrain from disagreement; assent
go along in American English
1.
to proceed; continue
2.
to agree; cooperate
3.
to accompany
often with with
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Examples of 'go along' in a sentence
go along
You find out more about people in adversity than when you are going along well.
The Sun (2012)
You go along to see this and you get inspired.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Perhaps women should go along and see for themselves?
The Sun (2012)
And what better reason to go along and look?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
We really, truly have always gone along being happy if a gig sells out.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We're under the radar but going along well.
The Sun (2015)
As a resident representative, he invited me to go along and see for myself.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Going along with something you're not happy with could wreck your relationship for good.
The Sun (2008)
So let's see what happens as we go along.
The Sun (2015)
Which is why I agreed to go along to see this counsellor of his.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It was not something I personally went along with.
The Sun (2012)
It's always just gone along with what we've been doing.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
One insider told us: 'It all went along perfectly nicely for a while.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
To save time and work, it's helpful to think ahead as you go along.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Which has me thinking that going along just to look couldn't hurt, could it?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It is unusual to have an actual house in Chelsea, so we went along to look at it.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But I also suspect he was fed up with all the upset to hospital routine that inevitably goes along with these visits.
The Sun (2011)
We had been playing and going along well enough but the results suggested otherwise: eight games with six tough results and close games we could have won.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I've seen aircraft going along and suddenly they'd just come down.
The Sun (2006)
Go along and see what your local branch has to offer, perhaps armed with an idea of what you can offer it, too.
Ingham, Christine Life Without Work (1994)
Chinese translation of 'go along'
go along
vi
去 (qù)
See go
Nearby words of
go along
go against
go ahead
go ahead!
go along
go along with
go around
go away
All related terms of 'go along'
go along with
( agree with : plan, idea, decision ) 赞(贊)同 zàntóng
go without
( food, treats ) 没(沒)有 méiyǒu ...
go with
( combine well with : colours, clothes, foods ) 与(與) ... 协(協)调(調) yǔ ... xiétiáo
( person ) 离(離)开(開) líkāi ( to party, club ) 出去消遣 chūqù xiāoqiǎn ▶ to go out of 离(離)开(開) líkāi ▶ are you going out tonight? 你今晚出去吗(嗎)？ nǐ jīnwǎn chūqù ma?
go on at
( nag ) 向 ... 唠(嘮)唠(嘮)叨叨 xiàng ... láolao-dāodao
go on about
对(對) ... 唠(嘮)唠(嘮)叨叨 duì ... láolao-dāodao
go on
( continue ) 继(繼)续(續) jìxù
go off with
( run away with : lover ) 同 ... 私奔 tóng ... sībēn
go off
( esp Brit : begin to dislike : person, place, idea etc ) 不再喜欢(歡) bù zài xǐhuan