ACROSS (PREPOSITION AND ADVERB)

Topic 19

ACROSS (PREPOSITION AND ADVERB)

Across may mean ‘from one side to the other side (of)’. It may mean ‘on the other side of’.

* We swam across the river.

* They walked across the road.

* Our home is just across the road.

* We shall soon be across the Channel and at Dover.

* Will you row me across (the river)?

* She helped the blind man across (the street).

Across is combined with some verbs and nouns in special meaning.

* The boys ran across country (i.e. across fields, open land, etc., not using roads)

* I came across this ivory carving in a curio shop (found it there by chance).

* The through came across my mind (occurred to me) that you might like to go with me.