Talk:onward

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Erh... can someone with native English voice may record this word again?


 * I agree, the audio file is damaged. —Stephen (Talk) 10:11, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Or recorded by Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:14, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

RFV discussion: November 2023–June 2024
Rfv the verb supposedly meaning ‘to keep going, to progress or persevere’. As far as I can tell, all the quotations currently listed under the verb are not verbal uses but an archaic use of the adverb. In Early Modern English (and even later), a construction existed in which an adverb of direction could, as a matter of grammar, regularly be used with no verb ‘to go’ expressed; compare uses like ‘Let us on by this tremulous light’, ‘we must away’, and the surviving fixed expressions ‘to want out’, ‘to want in’. The current quotes therefore do not demonstrate the existence of a verb sense for this word. To verify that a verb sense exists, quotes would have to be found that are unambiguously verbal, for instance ones that use the supposed inflected form ‘onwarded’. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 19:56, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * cited Kiwima (talk) 02:22, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The cites of the form "We will onward" seem like the same kind of construction as "we must away" - a matter of grammar rather than a particular verb. I moved them to the citations page. This, that and the other (talk) 22:38, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 03:49, 8 June 2024 (UTC)