May 9, 2015 · It's not like a supermarket where you can find pretty the same stuff whichever one you go to. You need to go to the airport which has the flight for which you have tickets. Maybe someone might say this if going to any airport fulfilled some interesting criteria, like maybe the first time they had been to any airport, or some fortune teller told ...

Go figure people—Scott Turow {fr Yiddish gey vays, "go know"} Notwithstanding the "contradictory or astonishing" language in Chapman & Kipfer's definition of "Go figure," the example from The Nation seems very much in line with Ayto's observation that the expression is often "used to suggest that the conclusion to be drawn about something is ...

Mar 17, 2014 · Go on is used with places related to holidays: vacation / honeymoon; trip / cruise; Go for a is used с noun related to activities: go for a swim / run / walk go for a beer / massage Go + verb: 1. Let's go eat. 2. I need to go wash my car. 3. Go clean your room! Go + gerund: When we are talking about hobbies or entertaining activities.

Jun 9, 2012 · "go to golf/chess club/rugby practice etc" tends to imply going along to an 'organised event' that happens on a regular basis. So saying "go to shopping" doesn't usually make sense, because it implies that there is an organised 'event' called "shopping" that you go to regularly, and that's not usually the case with shopping.

Jun 28, 2017 · "I gotta go" means "I have got to go" (more informal) and "I have to go". Both mean the same. Have (got) to is used to refer to obligations which come from outside the speaker. have (got) to is a requirement. (I am forced to go) should is a suggestion (optional). (I want to go although I may stay)

Aug 30, 2019 · Benjamin Harman commented: In the first sentence, "go for" is a phrasal verb that means to make an attempt at. In the second sentence, the verb is simply "go" and "to" appears as a preposition that introduces the destination where the subject will arrive as a result of performing the intransitive action of the ver

Jul 1, 2015 · In my experience, "go on" vacation is more common. However, both will be understood: "I will go to Mexico for vacation" means the same as "I will go on vacation to Mexico." As a side note, it is even more common to say, "I'm going on vacation to Mexico next month," replacing "I will go" with "I'm going."

Apr 18, 2023 · “If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together” Most sources say that this is a translation of an African proverb, but this article from NPR implies that there's a bit of confusion regarding whether this is actually genuinely from Africa:

Dec 19, 2018 · As I examine the phrases that use go + gerund, I find that they require a person to go to another location in order to do the action: --go shopping (you have to go to a store) --go fishing (you have to go to a body of water) --go skiing (you have to go to a mountain or ski resort) This is my present take on the subject.

go inside refers to an entire building or house or apartment: We did not go inside the house, we stayed outdoors. [the house is a unit, not broken up into rooms by the speaker] go inside a house/go outside (of) a house, where the house is a unit. go into/go out of a room [in a house or building]. But we also say: go into and out of the building.