Expressions with Go
Students encounter confusion with the word go. My experience with many, many students is that it has to do with the fact that go appears in not only the future with going to, but also in many expressions, some with gerunds, some with prepositional phrases, and some with neither.
In all of these phrases, the expression after go stays the same. In other words, if you see the word “go”, no matter what verb form or tense it is, the phrases after the word “go” cannot change.
Just because you go “to” work, it doesn’t mean you go “to” home.
- go home
- go to work
- go to bed
- go to the beach
- go on vacation
- go shopping
- go skiing
- go to the mountains
- go to school
One more thing: when you need to change verb tenses, you can use the word go in the phrases above to do so. Just don’t change the phrase afterwards.
- went home
- am going to work
- was going to go to bed
- had gone to the beach
…and so on.
For you students who are still confused, here’s an activity that might help.
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