going on meaning

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"Going On" is the second single taken from Gnarls Barkley's second studio album The Odd Couple.
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VerbBFgo onBFgo on!SGgoes onPTwent onPPgone on
1. present participle of go on.
Preposition
1. Indicates a time or age in the very near future.
  1. It's going on three o'clock.
  2. "How old are you?" ―"Going on nineteen."
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - Just the fact that I do not chant offenselessly should make me cry tears of remorse, but i go on stoneheartedly in my mechanical chanting.
  - We might just as well take our stand upon it and fight it out now on both sides of the House as to have it going on and being a perennial sore from year to...
  - A brooding Northerner, Verhaeren sees the sorrow, the travail, the sordidness, going on all about him, and loves the world just the same, ...
2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
  - It may look like a huge mess now, but I expect that it will all come out in the wash as time goes on.
  - I'm here reporting to let the world know what's going on!

Meaning of going on for the defined word.

Grammatically, this idiom "going on" is a phrase, more specifically, a phrasal preposition. It's also a preposition, more specifically, a phrasal preposition. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.

Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
1. Phrases
  - Phrasal prepositions
2. Prepositions
  - Phrasal prepositions
3. Verbs
  - Verb forms
    - Participles
      - Present participles

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