Difference between revisions of "Go"
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*It's hard to get Margot to go anywhere. | *It's hard to get Margot to go anywhere. | ||
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| + | *gone: absent | ||
| + | *gone missing: ''concerningly'' absent | ||
| + | *gone fishing: ''out'' | ||
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gone + activity (shopping, dancing, running, bowling, riding, swimming, etc.) | gone + activity (shopping, dancing, running, bowling, riding, swimming, etc.) | ||
*I haven't gone riding since the lockdown began. | *I haven't gone riding since the lockdown began. | ||
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| − | + | *'''be'''gone! get thee away from here | |
| − | Let bygones be bygones = forgive and forget | + | *'''by'''gones: stuff that has happened |
| + | *Let bygones be bygones = forgive and forget | ||
===''Futur proche''=== | ===''Futur proche''=== | ||
*I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair. (''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Gonna_Wash_That_Man_Right_Outa_My_Hair South Pacific]'', 1949) | *I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair. (''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Gonna_Wash_That_Man_Right_Outa_My_Hair South Pacific]'', 1949) | ||
Revision as of 01:09, 2 May 2020
Conjugation
Present: go(es) Past: went Participles: gone, going
Semantics
Basic
move from where you are. move elsewhere. Bouge!
- It's hard to get Margot to go anywhere.
Absent / on a mission
- gone: absent
- gone missing: concerningly absent
- gone fishing: out
gone + activity (shopping, dancing, running, bowling, riding, swimming, etc.)
- I haven't gone riding since the lockdown began.
- begone! get thee away from here
- bygones: stuff that has happened
- Let bygones be bygones = forgive and forget
Futur proche
- I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair. (South Pacific, 1949)
