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The adverb aboard is used to modify a verb, to tell more about a verb; for example:

"The travel bag that I carried aboard was too heavy to lift into the bin."

* Aboard is an adverb when the vehicle is already known.

"He reached the ship and went aboard."

"We ran to the bus and climbed aboard."

It is a preposition when used in the sentence:

We came aboard the ship together.

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