Timeline for Can we leave out "to" after go?
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| Feb 18, 2022 at 14:24 | comment | added | MichaelS | @Peter-ReinstateMonica: From that, I see a lot of people are defining "adverb" in a way I certainly never learned, so there's that. But it's a rather odd definition, since it basically defines anything that isn't a subject, adjective of the subject, or verb as an "adverb". Prepositional phrases, direct objects, etc. all become "adverbs". So in "go home", home is both a noun and an adverb. In "he punched her", her is both a pronoun and an adverb. It's a rather silly definition to me. "Modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb" is much more useful. | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 15:37 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @MichaelS Oh, and whether you mark an adverb with -y is often a matter of taste: "Fly safe!" ;-). | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 15:33 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @MichaelS According to Merriam-Webster, home is an adverb here: "told the dog to go home". Adverbs can not only describe a manner but also a time, location (as here) or a number of other qualities. So, true: You don't go in a home-like way; but you go to a home[-like] place ;-). I don't want to commit to anything with "go wild" -- Collins says in "went wild" it's an adjective. But rogue in "to go rogue" is an adverb. | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 14:14 | comment | added | MichaelS | @Peter-ReinstateMonica: To go fast, or go boldly, is to go in a specific manner. That's an adverb. To go home, or go wild, is to go to a specific place. That's a noun. You don't go in a home-like way. And, though it could be interpreted as such, the usual meaning of "go wild" doesn't imply you're going in a wild way, but rather that you are going to a state of being wild. (Also, we'd typically say "go wildLY" if we meant it as an adverb.) | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 13:19 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | @Peter-ReinstateMonica right, it's two different uses of the word. In related languages it may actually be different words/forms; Norwegian “gå hjem” means go home whereas “gå hjemme” would mean go at home. Otherwise same story as in English: “gå den annen vei” would mean go the other way, i.e. to use the other way for walking, whereas “gå til den annen vei” means the way is the destination, you're going to it. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 8:43 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @mcalex More seriously: Home in "go home" is not a noun but an adverb: Go wild, go fast, go boldly where no man has gone before: Go home. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 8:25 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @mcalex Or "Let's go places! " ;-) Although that may be slightly agrammatical as a stylistic device. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 8:23 | comment | added | mcalex | You're not wrong, but 'let's go home...'? | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 3:15 | history | answered | Acccumulation | CC BY-SA 4.0 |