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hi everybody my name is Alisha in this
lesson I'm going to talk about phrasal
verbs that use go so remember a phrasal
verb is a verb plus a preposition and
then sometimes something extra so today
I'm going to introduce a few common
phrasal verbs with go that maybe you
haven't heard of there are quite a lot
with this verb so I want to introduce
some that hopefully you can use right
away let's get started okay
the first phrasal verb I want to talk
about is go ahead go ahead
this means permission or encouragement
to do something before others so I've
noticed on this channel for example many
viewers like to use go ahead but they
mean please continue
go ahead does not have the meaning of
please continue something it means feel
free to do something before me so an
example of using go ahead might be go
ahead and eat for example I'm going to
be home late today go ahead and eat
dinner
so go ahead means before me so go ahead
and do something will follow go ahead
oftentimes with and go ahead of me and
do something some verb will follow this
so in this case go ahead and eat is a
very common way that we use this one
okay
let's move along to the next phrasal
verb which is go along with to go along
with something means to temporarily
temporarily means for a short time only
to temporarily believe something that
may be false
so here I put may be false this could be
a story it could be a plan it could be
like just the way that someone is
behaving but this means to temporarily
believe so yes temporarily can be a very
short time but this could be over weeks
months or years so it's something that
perhaps has an endpoint at some point in
time that doesn't have to be very soon
but you temporarily believe or you
pretend to believe something here's an
example I don't want to go along with
this plan I don't want to go along with
this plan so here there's a noun phrase
I don't want to go along with this plan
means I don't want to pretend this plan
is okay so kind of the feeling here of
to go along with something is that
you're believing it and you're like
pretending that you're agreeing with
that thing or you're participating in
that thing so to go along with something
it can't have a negative meaning it can
also have kind of like a positive
feeling like for example a surprise
birthday party like we need her to go
along with the idea that she's not
meeting her friends today for example
like we need her to temporarily believe
she's not meeting her friends but it can
have a negative feeling like here I
don't want to go along with this plan
maybe the plan is bad or the plan is
kind of evil somehow so to go along with
something is to believe something or to
like continue doing something to pretend
to agree with something that may not be
true okay so let's continue on to the
next phrasal verb the next phrasal verb
is to go around to go around this has
two meanings actually the first is to be
enough for a group to be enough for a
group the second one is one that you
probably or maybe already know which is
to move past something by moving around
it so there's some obstacle that you
face and you move around that obstacle
so that one is probably a little easier
to understand moving around physically
an obstacle in order to pass the
obstacle however the one I want to focus
on for this lesson is this one to be
enough for a group to go around so in an
example sentence do we have drinks to go
around so
here do we have drinks to go around as a
question means do we have enough drinks
for all the people in our group so go
around is a shorter way to say that so
you can imagine if you have a group of
people in a circle you can like gives
each person one of something so that
means to go around there's enough of
something to go around you will
sometimes hear people include enough in
a phrase like this do we have enough
drinks to go around so this refers to
having enough of something for everyone
in a group ok let's move along to the
next expression the next phrasal verb is
go away go away this is probably one
that many of you know to go away is
often used as a command without the to
just go away command form so it means to
move away from the current location like
to move away from the whiteboard for
example or to move away from the camera
so you're moving away from something so
you're not getting closer it's the
opposite direction but like I said we
often use it as commands so to tell
someone to go away to tell a pet to go
away another example I wish these bugs
would go away I wish these bugs would go
away
so in other words go away from me go
away from me from the speaker so when we
say go away it's and it doesn't have
this kind of like reference point it
tends to mean like from the speaker's
location so I wish these bugs would go
away from me okay
let's move along to the next phrasal
verb the next one is go back or go back
to so you'll see these both used so to
go back to something let's use that to
go back to something means to return to
a previous location or you can use it
for a phase like a step in a project or
you can use it for a person to go back
to a person to go back to a certain
phase of your project to go back to a
place so we use this when we've made
dressed in some way or we've changed our
life in some way and we return to
something that we did earlier or we
return to a person that we associated
with earlier when we use this expression
to talk about people it's often because
we're talking about a romantic
relationship
like for example he went back to his ex
girlfriend or she went back to her
former boss for example so there's
something that like we knew in the past
we knew was true about the person in the
past and they returned to that point so
we can use go back to to refer to them
more commonly perhaps though is when we
just want to return to something we saw
earlier for example go back to slide two
please
so if you're giving a presentation you
could say go back to slide two please
return to slide two so everyone saw
slide two I the speaker the presenter
want to return to that slide for some
reason so go back to something is to
return to something okay let's move
along to another one that's very similar
so we talked about go back or go back to
now let's look at go back on so to go
back on something is to choose not to do
something as promised
so we tend to use this expression with
promises or agreements of some kind so
to go back on a promise means you make
the promise and then your actions do not
align with the promise so in an example
sentence the president went back on his
promises so to go back on his promises
this means the president made a promise
and the president's actions did not
match that promise so for example the
president of the company said he would
give all employees their birthday off
and then the president decided not to do
that in the end so he made a choice he
or she made a choice not to make that
birthday policy happen so that would be
an example of the president going back
on his promise so
choosing not to do a thing that you
promise to do in some cases people will
do the opposite of what they promised to
do we can use that as well so to go back
on and to go back to our quite different
keep in mind to go back on always sounds
quite negative to go back to doesn't
necessarily sound negative it can
depending on what is being returned -
like if you're if a person is going back
to a negative relationship for example
it could feel negative but to go back on
does have that negative feeling of like
betrayal
okay so let's continue on to the next
phrasal verb which is go for to go for
something to go for something means to
try to obtain something or someone to
try to get something or to try to get
someone so when I say to get someone
here
this can mean like to get someone as
like a boyfriend or girlfriend or if you
mean to try to get someone to
participate in something so you want
someone to join like a party or a
conference or something similar you can
use this expression in that case so
let's look at an example she's going for
the gold medal so very common in the
Olympics and sporting events in general
she's going for here I have the
progressive tense she's going for that
means she's trying to get the gold medal
she's going for the gold is also a way
that we say this so in this case it's an
object if you want to use it to talk
about a person you could say like oh I
tried to go for that girl or that guy
across the room but he or she wasn't
interested for example so you're trying
to get or you're trying to attract a
person okay let's move along to the next
one which is go in on to go in on
something careful go back on and go in
on are quite different go in on
something to go in on something means to
become one of a group of people
investing in something so investing in
many cases this means investing money
in something in probably most cases with
this expression so you and some other
people have decided you all want the
same thing and you invest your resources
in that thing an example I went in on a
shared office so here we have past tense
I went in on a shared office so shared
office is the thing that each person
wants in this group we don't know how
many people but we used I went in on
this shows us that there are other
people who want the same thing that we
don't have to mention the other people I
went in I went in on a shared office so
I invested money perhaps time effort
resources in order to get this shared
office with other people so to go in on
something it does have kind of a
cooperative feeling about it it's
neither positive nor negative really ok
on to the next one the next one is go
off to go off so to go off when you're
talking about people to go off means to
lose your temper means like to shout or
to yell angrily to go off you'll also
hear when something goes off it could be
like an alarm like the alarm went off
this morning so it has kind of the same
feel though like when a person goes off
they lose their temper they shout they
scream when an alarm goes off it makes a
lot of noise so you can imagine it's
sort of like an object losing its temper
or an object making a lot of noise as
well so we can use this for a few
objects but we we use it a lot for
people's tempers as well their emotions
example a guy went off at a cop so here
you'll see
yes I've used it in the past tense a guy
went off at a cop we can use at after
this to show the recipient of the anger
so in this case a cop so cop is slang
for a police officer so a guy went off
lost his temper at a police officer I've
used at here you will also hear
like my mom went off on me is another
common one or my mom went off at me
you might hear both of those I think I
probably used on more often but you may
hear at as well so to go off on someone
means to lose your temper with someone
okay on to the next one the next one is
to go out to go out so to go out means
just to leave your home to leave your
home so this can be used
I feel positively to refer to doing
activities outside of your house it's
like you're going to do something fun
for example why don't we go out tonight
why don't we go out tonight so this is
one that you can use when you're
thinking about like planning activities
so let's go out or we went out to a
movie last night for example so to go
out sounds like you're out and about
doing things okay let's move on to the
next one then the next one is the
expression go together to go together so
yes this does mean to physically go to
another location with someone like let's
go together let's go to the movies
together but this also has the meaning
of suiting like to suit or to combine
well to suit or to combine well so we
use this a lot for clothing actually so
a really common example sentence with
clothing do these shoes and this shirt
go together
so the speaker here is asking about two
things a pair of shoes these shoes the
plural and this shirt so the speaker is
asking do these two sort of parts to my
look go together so one point to be
careful about go together does not mean
match so two match means two things are
exactly the same 100% the same two go
together means they combine well they
combine nicely they look good together
so you'll often hear people actually
drop this together people will sometimes
say like do these shoes and this shirt
go do they go in
go together so when we say go in this
way it means do they suit each other
like do they combine it nicely so we use
this a lot for talking about our clothes
and for our appearance so keep an eye
out for this one it's quite common okay
let's move on to the next one to go with
something or to go with someone to go
with or to go I'm sorry to go with
something to go with someone means to
choose to choose we use this a lot in
restaurants and kind of in any situation
where we're making plans like for
example I'm gonna go with the steak I'm
gonna go with the steak so here I have
go with followed by the object the
speaker chooses I'm gonna go with the
steak so I chose the steak or I choose
the steak if you're using this to talk
about a person you might be planning
something like you're planning a team
like I'm gonna go with person a for this
role in my company or this role at the
event I'm gonna go with person B for
this role so when you're choosing people
or maybe you're choosing teams for
something you could use go with it
sounds kind of like a casual way of
choosing someone instead of choose like
I choose this person I choose that
person using go with sounds a little bit
lighter a little less formal okay so
let's continue to the last one in this
list which is go without to go without
so to go without something means to do
something without typical items or
typical people so there's some like
common tasks some kind of well-known
tasks or well-known activity but you
have to do that thing without something
that you usually use so an example I had
to go without rain gear for my hike so
imagine it's a rainy day and the speaker
had to go on this hike but without his
or her rain year with no rain gear
without using this thing that he or she
usually uses so to go without something
this does have a negative
new ones that this thing that I need or
this thing that I prefer to have that
it's common to have I did not have that
for a task or an activity that I was
doing so to go without something in
another example like maybe I could say
and I had to go without a microphone for
this lesson like it would maybe make it
less of a good experience the experience
would not be as good or it would be
difficult to do things so to go without
something does tend to sound a little
bit more negative okay so this is a lot
of information I know but this is just a
quick introduction to some phrasal verbs
that use the word go if you have any
other questions or if you want to know
some more about other phrasal verbs that
use go I would highly recommend checking
a dictionary there are a lot of words a
lot of expressions that use go so please
take a look at a dictionary for some
more information and some more example
sentences as well of course if you have
questions or comments or if you want to
practice making an example sentence
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