Phrasal verbs con Go: quello che devi sapere

Phrasal verbs are verbs made up of multiple words:

a verb + a preposition / an adverb or more than one.

The main characteristic of English phrasal verbs is that their meaning is not always the same as the meaning of their component parts . For example:

• Go out = Translation to go out , that is, to go (to go) out (out).

But instead:

• Go on = To happen or continue , meanings that have nothing to do with Go ( to go ) and On ( on ).

But that’s not all. English phrasal verbs can confuse students for another reason: they often have more than one meaning, which you need to understand from the context. For example, the phrasal verb ” Go on” has four meanings :

1. Happening : What’s going on ?
2. Continue : We can’t go on living in this house: it’s too small .
3. Move on to the next step: If you can’t answer a question, go on to the next one .
4. Turn on , activate: Heating goes on at 5 pm ( The heating turns on at 5 pm ).

If we’ve made your mouth water and you want to know more, rush to read our article on phrasal verbs .

The verb Go in English can mean several things:

• Leaving a place : I have to go, it’s getting late .
• To move to reach a place: Laura and I are going to London this summer (Laura and I are going to London this summer ).
• Travel, proceed : You can’t go 200 mph on the highway .
• To get to , to take: This road goes to the church (This road goes to the church ).
• Become : When she heard the news, Paula went crazy ( When she heard the news, Paula became very angry ).

The verb Go is an irregular verb . Here is its paradigm:

Go (Present simple)

Went (Past simple)

Gone (Past participle)

Finally, we remind you that the verb Go – with the expression be going to – is one of the ways to express the future in English . ?

In the following paragraph, you’ll find a table of all the phrasal verbs in Go. Here, we’ve highlighted five whose meanings can’t be deduced from their component parts.

Go for ✨

The phrasal verb “go for” is very interesting because it has so many different meanings. Let’s look at four of them:

1. To attack: The lion went for the gazelle and bit it ( The lion attacked the gazelle and bit it ).
2. Choose : I’ll go for the cheesecake, thank you ( I’ll take the cheesecake, thank you ).
3. Try to get, to get: When playing the game, it’s important to go for the highest score you can get!
4. Make, serve as: This box will go for a perfect treasure chest in our pirate game.

Go on ?

Here’s another very “explosive” phrasal verb with a lot of different meanings, all waiting to be discovered.

1. Continue , move on: The speech went on and on and I was bored to death (The speech went on for ages and I was bored to death) .
2. What’s happening : The kitchen is completely flooded: what’s going on?
3. To go (well or badly), to make progress : The project is going on well, we’ll be done by the end of the month .
4. Activate (of device, etc.). The alarm goes on when you close the front door.
5. Moving on to the next stage : We cannot go to the oral exams if we have not completed the written exams.
6. To be allocated (of money): Most of my income goes to my rent.

Go out ?

Okay, to go out means to go out , and that’s understandable. But it also means other things, did you know?

1. Leaving an environment , a building: Don’t forget to bring an umbrella when you go out ( When you go out, don’t forget your umbrella ).
2. Going out for fun : I like to go out for a drink after work on Friday nights .
3. Dating someone , being together: They had been dating for almost five years before they got married .
4. Go out (of light or heat): The candles went out because of the strong wind .
5. To exit a competition : Italy went out at the first round (L’Italia è uscita al primo turno ).
6. To be sent or forwarded: The email will go out tomorrow at 8 am.

Go over ?

Go over, interesting translation. Look here:

1. Review, re-examine , rethink: I’ve gone over that sentence a thousand times, but I still don’t understand what it means .
2. Be well received : I hope the movie will go over well with critics and audiences .
3. Exceed, exceed: If you go over the word limit, your essay will not be accepted .

Go through ?

And we end with the phrasal verb to go through and its many different meanings:

1. Be approved, accepted : The new school regulations went through yesterday ( The new school regulations were approved yesterday ).
2. To try, to go through (a difficult situation): Pam is very strong: she goes through hard times with courage and determination .
3. To examine , to review all the elements of a whole: I am going through my closet to get rid of the clothes I don’t wear anymore .
4. To consume, to use in large quantities: We went through all our savings to restore the house (We spent all our savings to restore the house).

And here’s the complete list of the most common Go phrasal verbs, complete with translations and examples. You can also download the PDF version of the Go phrasal verb list to keep it handy.

We’ve reached the end… now it’s your turn! In each of the following sentences, complete the phrasal verb with the correct particle. To help you, we’ve included a synonym for the phrasal verb at the beginning of each sentence. Once you’re finished, click “Show Results” to compare your answers.

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