1. Gone is the past participle of go.
2. adjective When someone is gone, they have left the place where you are and are no longer there, or they are no longer living (dead).
While he was gone she had tea with the Colonel.
He’s already been gone four hours!
Both her parents are gone.
When something is gone, it is no longer present or no longer exists.
By morning the smoke will be all gone.
And there is a bonus in this lesson for you! Besides gone, you also learn for instance! I have two students who loved learning that! 😉
For instance is just an alternative way to say for example:
We need to rethink the way we consume energy. Take, for instance, our approach to transport.
Old English was in many ways similar to Modern German. For instance, the nouns, adjectives, and verbs were highly inflected.