adverb / adjective · neutral
onward
UK/ˈɒnwəd/US/ˈɔn·wɚd/ON·ward
Band 5-6speakingtask2
continuing from a particular time or moving forward in direction
Examples
“From 2015 onward, the company focused on sustainability.”
“They moved onward through the valley.”
“onward movement”
Band 8 sentence
“From 2020 onward, policy reforms facilitated onward economic integration across the region.”
Collocations
- from X onward
- move onward
- onward progress
Word family
onward adv., adj.onwards adv. (BrE variant)
Common mistakes
From 2010 onwardss, we saw changes.→From 2010 onward, we saw changes.
We will onward to the next stage.→We will move onward to the next stage.
Say it for a higher band
5from then on→6forward→7+onward
Synonyms
forward
Easily confused
forward
“From that point forward, the project accelerated.”
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