go
part of speech
verb (go, goes, went, gone, going); noun (a go — a turn, a try)
meaning for a pupil
1) To go is to move from one place to another: go to school. tree →
2) To go away is to leave. tree →
3) To go can mean to belong or fit in a place: the cups go in the cupboard. tree →
4) To go can mean to become: go red, go quiet. tree →
5) A go is a turn: it's my go. tree →
6) To go can mean to work or to happen: the car won't go; how did the test go? tree →
7) (casual) «Gonna» means «going to»; «go» can mean «say» (and he goes, «no way!»); «have a go» means try; «on the go» means busy; «to go» (US) means food to take away. tree →
8) (rough) «Have a go at someone» (UK, Australia) means attack them with words; «Go on then!» can dare someone; «Go away», «get going» tell someone to leave. tree →
9) (euphemism) «Go» or «gone» can mean die: «when I go», «she's gone»; «go to the toilet» is said as «go» for short. tree →
10) (formal) The exam voice says «proceed», «depart», «travel», «be transferred», «be allocated to». tree →
sense in the lessons
things leaving a group («go away», «went home» = subtract); things going into boxes («go in each box» after splitting equally = divide); in everyday life «go out», «go on», «go to bed», «have a go» (try), «let go» (stop holding); in safety «Go» at a green light; future «going to» and casual «gonna»; in casual talk «and she goes …» (she says), «on the go»; as a euphemism «gone» (died), «let go» (lost a job); in the exam voice «proceed», «depart», «be allocated to each container»
examples
- When some of a group goes away, we subtract. tree →
- How many stamps go in each box? tree →
- 4 of the 11 children went home. tree →
- We go to school by bus. tree →
- The plates go on the top shelf. tree →
- It's your go to throw the dice. tree →
- The traffic light turned green, so the cars could go. tree →
- I'm going to bake a cake. tree →
- we're gonna need 2 more chairs, nan's coming tree →
- and he goes, «that's mine», and I go, «no it's not» tree →
- Go on then, have a go, bet you can't. tree →
- Four of the 11 pupils subsequently departed the premises; state the number remaining. tree →
- At first I refused to go. tree →
note
«go away», «went home» or «departed» = subtract; «go in each box» after splitting equally = divide. Past «went», past participle «gone». He/she/it goes. «going to» and «gonna» show a plan for the future, not movement. Trap: «and he goes» in chat means «and he said». «have a go» means try; «have a go at someone» means tell them off. «she's gone» can mean she left or, gently, that she died: read the story around it.
In the corpora
- Some people go to work ill because they can't afford to lose the pay, which spreads germs to everyone else.
- A picket line is striking workers standing outside their workplace with signs, peacefully asking others not to go in.
- Rent is often a family's biggest bill, so when it goes up, other spending has to shrink.
- It moves as numbers when a card is tapped, a bill goes out or pay comes in.
- A bank statement lists everything that went in and out of an account, and grown-ups check it for mistakes and fraud.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «go» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.