13 Most Common Phrasal Verbs with GO

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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