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What is the difference between along the river and alongside the river ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between along the river and alongside the river ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
1. I biked along the river.
2. I biked alongside the river.
I wrote the sentence #1 and a friend of mine gave me #2 as an alternative.
2. I biked alongside the river.
I wrote the sentence #1 and a friend of mine gave me #2 as an alternative.
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They really just mean the same thing in those sentences
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They both sound fine to me in the example sentence. One difference I can think of is when you're talking about something specifically at the side of a river. So you can say,
"I was sitting alongside the river", but not "I was sitting along the river".
"The tree is alongside the river", but not "the tree is along the river".
However, "There are trees along the river" and "There are trees alongside the river" are both correct.
I think along has more of a stretched out, general feeling to it, like you are biking down the length of the river, while alongside is a little more like focusing more on the location where you were cycling, location being beside of the river.
I hope than made sense :)
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@artyolek Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. It was extremely helpful. I think I got the difference between the along and alongside well. 😉
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