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English
Verb
be along (third-person singular simple present is along, present participle being along, simple past was along, past participle been along)
- To arrive.
I expect John will be along soon.
2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.
Usage notes
- Be is almost never inflected in this phrasal verb. The use of modal verbs is much more common, or else the to infinitive.
- The sense is for the future, or near present. There is no past form, except for subordinate clause structures, using past modal verbs. E.g. I thought the bus would be along soon.
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