What Are The Differnces Between Past, Cross, Through, And Along

The word past has several meanings (usually related to time before the present or to indicate movement from one side of a reference point to the other side.) Past can be used as an adjective, an adverb, a noun or apreposition:

·         As an Adjective, past denotes time before the present.

This past year has been difficult for the recruiters. 

She loves to tell us about past dance competitions in the hall. 

·         As a Noun past means the time before the present.

That's all in the past. 

Can you dig into his past? 

Cross can be a few things, one would be an emotion similar to anger. "My parents were cross when they found out I broke the window". 

Cross can also be two perpendicular lines such as X, which could indicate something is wrong. This would be used in the games "noughts and crosses". When the cross is like this, +, it could sybolise the christian faith. "Jesus was nailed to the cross". 

Through is used to talk about movement in an area which is accepted to be 3-dimensional (it has height, width and length) examples are:

a room

a doorway

a forest

a school

a housing estate

the sea (including depth)

Along is used when we consider movement in a linear direction, we are only concerned with its length, examples are:

a path

a road

a tightrope