Difference between Aside and Away

What is the difference between Aside and Away?

Aside as an adverb is to one side so as to be out of the way. while Away as an adverb is from a place; hence.

Aside

Part of speech: preposition

Definition: aside from

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An incidental remark made quietly so as to be heard by the person to whom it is said and not by any others in the vicinity.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: To one side so as to be out of the way.

Example sentence: It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Away

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not here; gone.Unavailable.Traveling; on vacation.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: From a place; hence.Absent; gone; at a distance;Aside; off; in another direction.From a state or condition of being; out of existence.By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away.To releaseAt a distance in time or space

Example sentence: Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

We hope you now know whether to use Aside or Away in your sentence.

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