along

/əlɔŋ/4 verbsVowel-initial — links backwards

Moving forward in company, or in agreement.

ALONG is accompaniment in motion: come along, bring along, tag along all mean joining someone who is already going.

From that, two figurative senses fall out: get along (two people moving in the same direction, socially) and go along with (agreeing to move in someone else's direction).

What it does to the sound

Unstressed schwa first, stress on LONG: a-LONG. The verb links straight into that schwa, so get along is “ge-da-LONG” with a flapped T and no gap anywhere in the phrase.

What ALONG means

Accompanying

You join someone who is already on their way.

come along bring alongtag along

Getting on with people

Two people move in the same direction socially.

get alongget along with

Agreeing

You accept someone else's plan and move with it.

go along withplay along

Every verb that takes ALONG

The complete list — 4 of them. The section above groups the common ones by what ALONG is doing.

The particle ALONG — what it does to a verb