COME OR GO Learn British English Grammar

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english with Lucy today is going to be a

video about the verb to come and the

verb to go and when to use which one

even some of my most advanced students

make the mistake

so let’s clarify exactly when to use

them and I hope it helps you improve

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so the verb to come and the verb to go

very easily confused now there are two

simple rules that will help you

understand them firstly though you need

to understand what a speaker is and what

a listener is well the speaker is the

person talking right now I am the

speaker and the listener is the person

the speaker is talking to the person

so right now you my friend are the

listener or at least I hope so the first

use for to come is movement between the

speaker and the listener if I say Quan

come here I’m asking Kwan to move to me

or if I say don’t worry one I’ll come to

you I’m moving to where one is we also

use to come to talk about movement from

another place to where the speaker or

listener is now go on the other hand we

use to show movement from where the

speaker or listener is to another place

okay so come from another place to where

the speaker or listener is and go from

where the speaker or listener is to

another place okay so that’s pretty easy

but thinking about it in the moment when

you’re having a conversation can be

quite challenging I often hear my

students say yeah next year I’ll come

back to Spain but they’re telling me

whilst they’re in London so they should

say I’m going back to Spain if they were

talking to their parents in Spain on

holiday and say yes I’ll come back to

Spain next year that would be correct

but since they’re in London it’s go

another really nice way of thinking of

things is thinking of come as moving

closer and go as moving away so what

happens which one do we use if we’re

talking about somebody another different

person that is neither the speaker nor

the listener well it all depends from

which point of view

we’re see anything my best friend is

called Felicity and she is going to talk

to her mother for some help so let’s

look at two different sentences using

both go and cup the first one

Felicity came to her mother for help the

second Felicity went to her mother for

help the first sentence she came to her

mother for help we’re looking at it from

her mother’s viewpoint in the second one

when Felicity went to her

for help we’re looking at it from

Felicity’s point of view from Felicity’s

viewpoint so that’s how we use come and

go all right now I said a lot of words

but I think it’s time to put this into

practice so I’m going to do a quiz with

you right now so I’m going to give you

some phrases and you need to tell me if

they’re come or go you’ll have three

seconds and then I will show you the

answer so don’t forget to pause it if

you need more time to think okay so

we’re going to do five questions the

first one one second I’m just calling

Felicity I’m up Kwan’s party

why don’t you two I’m up Kwan’s party

why don’t you two which one will it be

so the answer is come I’m at the party

so I want Felicity to come to me okay

I’m still on the phone to Felicity but

let’s do number two Felicity I loved

Seville

I’d love to back there one day

Felicity I loved Seville I’d love to

back there one day

so Felicity lives in London so maybe the

answer would be different if I was

calling a friend in Seville

but Felicity is here so the answer is

you go I’d love to go back there one day

okay number three

I went to see the new Bridget Jones film

last night I recommend that you and see

it too I went to see the new Bridget

Jones film last night I recommend that

you and see it to come or go it’s going

I recommend that you go and see it too

I’ve already been so I’m not inviting

you with me and I’m not there right now

so it has to be go okay number four

let’s pretend that I’m talking to my

boss in the office okay I to work

by bus today but I’m going to home by

train I to work by bus today

but I’m going to home by train

okay well I’m in the office so I came to

work by bus today but I’m going to go

home by train okay so now I’ve finished

work and I’m at home and I’m telling my

flatmate what I did today it’s going to

be a very exciting conversation lucky

flatmate

so Angelo and Alisha I to work by bus

today but I home by train I to work by

bus today but I home by train

well since I’m at home I went to work by

bus and I came home by train how lovely

that my flatmates and I can have such

exciting conversations alright that was

the last one I hope this video has

served to clarify the meanings and the

uses of come-and-go and I hope that you

now feel slightly more confident while

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