Timeline for "Go XXX" or "go to XXX"
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| Oct 17, 2016 at 9:45 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Sorry I haven't challenged this before, Barry – I've only just found it. I don't like the classification of 'home' when non-nounal as an intransitive preposition. However, 'Is John home yet?' argues strongly against the adverb classification. I stick with locative / directional particle. // The oddness of the behaviour of home is because there are essentially two words, 'home', and 'to/at-home' which has assumed the same form. | |
| Jan 6, 2012 at 0:18 | vote | accept | Luke Vo | ||
| Jan 5, 2012 at 13:08 | comment | added | z7sg Ѫ | Go fly a kite! | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 13:05 | comment | added | Barrie England | @Irene: I shoiuld have been more explicit. I haved edited my answer to make it so. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 13:04 | history | edited | Barrie England | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 5, 2012 at 12:55 | comment | added | Irene | @PeterShor: "Downtown" is listed as an adverb (which is how I understand it in your example) as well as an adjective and a noun (Oxford Dictionaries Online). It doesn't exactly deviate from the rule that Barrie has given. As for "home", the same source lists it as an adverb, too. | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 22:18 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Okay, I'll challenge you, even though I'm not the downvoter. In most American cities, you can go downtown, although Ngrams shows this isn't used much in British English. (You could also classify the word home in go home not as a noun but a directional adverb. You can go home, walk home, or head home, just the same way you go west, walk downstairs, or head downtown.) | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 12:02 | comment | added | Luke Vo | Agree, I saw your post point was 3, now it's 2, so someone must have vote you down. I hate those lazy people! | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 11:55 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | @Kris: Encouraging people to explain down-votes | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 11:45 | comment | added | Kris | Barrie, I have posted numerous comments seeking out the fly-by down voters. Someone should post a question on meta and try to solve this. | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 11:42 | comment | added | Kris | @W.N.: Some words may not immediately appear to be nouns and therefore seem to conflict: Go fishing*/ *Go shopping. In reality, I do not see any conflict here, though. | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 11:21 | comment | added | Luke Vo | So I should wait for more answers, right? | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 7:55 | comment | added | Barrie England | I expected this answer to be challenged. I'd be grateful if the down-voter would do so, perhaps by producing counter-examples. | |
| Jan 3, 2012 at 7:37 | history | answered | Barrie England | CC BY-SA 3.0 |