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go on, v.
freq. cnt. 111
more info continue a certain state, condition, or activity
<verb.stative>   freq. cnt.: 233 freq. cnt.: 146 freq. cnt.: 44 freq. cnt.: 39 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

continue go along go on keep proceed

sample sentences

"Keep on working!"
"We continued to work into the night"
"Keep smiling"
"We went on working until well past midnight"

verb frames

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
They %s to move
They %s moving

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Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
They %s moving

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Somebody ----s VERB-ing
They %s moving

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Somebody ----s VERB-ing

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Somebody ----s VERB-ing
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
continuation continuance continuation
antonym
discontinue
semantic pointers
hypernym
act, move
verb group
continue, preserve, uphold, carry on, bear on continue
hyponym
hold run on, keep going ride
more info come to pass
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come about fall out go on hap happen occur pass pass off take place

sample sentences

"What is happening?"
"The meeting took place off without an incidence"
"Nothing occurred that seemed important"

verb frames

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
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derivationally related form
happening
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
hap
semantic pointers
hyponym
break, recrudesce, develop come up, arise result intervene transpire give supervene go, proceed come fall anticipate develop repeat, recur go over, come off, go off come around, roll around happen, materialize, materialise happen, befall, bechance befall, bechance, betide coincide, concur backfire, backlash, recoil chance break fall, strike, shine turn out synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise
more info move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
<verb.motion>   freq. cnt.: 45 freq. cnt.: 23 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2

advance go on march on move on pass on progress

sample sentences

"Time marches on"

verb frames

Something ----s
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The water %ss

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derivationally related form
advancement advance advance advancer
antonym
recede
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derivationally related form
progression progress progress
semantic pointers
hypernym
go, move, travel, locomote
hyponym
forge penetrate creep up, sneak up encroach, infringe, impinge press on, push on, plough on string, string along pass, overtake, overhaul close in, draw in edge, inch ratchet, rachet up, ratchet down pass, go by, elapse, slip away, go along, lapse, slip by, glide by, slide by
more info continue talking
<verb.communication>   freq. cnt.: 76 freq. cnt.: 39 freq. cnt.: 19 freq. cnt.: 17 freq. cnt.: 1

carry on continue go on proceed

sample sentences

"`I know it's hard', he continued, `but there is no choice'"
"carry on--pretend we are not in the room"

verb frames

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

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Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

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Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

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Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
continuation continuation
semantic pointers
hypernym
talk, speak
hyponym
segue ramble, ramble on, jog
more info start running, functioning, or operating
<verb.contact>   freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

come on come up go on

sample sentences

"the lights went on"
"the computer came up"

verb frames

Something ----s

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lexical pointers
antonym
go off
semantic pointers
hypernym
start, get going, go