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Behnam A Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Go / come

do you come with me ?
do you go with me ?
when do we use each of them ?
can you bring up a situation in which we use the second one please ?
  

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Hi Behnam. Go and come are tricky verbs. You use come when you are at the destination and go is used when you are at the origin.

  • Hi Behnam.
  • Go and come are tricky verbs.
  • You use come when you are at the destination and go is used when you are at the origin.
  • As for the situations I can say When you are in London and there is a concert in LA, so you ask your friend who is in london to acompany you during your trip to LA.
  • you most probably ask him to come with you, it literary means that your friend should come to you and then you both can go to LA.
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Hi Behnam.

Go and come are tricky verbs.

You use come when you are at the destination and go is used when you are at the origin.

As for the situations I can say

When you are in London and there is a concert in LA, so you ask your friend who is in london to acompany you during your trip to LA. you most probably ask him to come with you, it literary means t
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up until now no one has added anything else so i think what you said is all correct

thanks a lot Emotion: smile
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Hi Behnam,

You can use "accompany" in either of cases interchangably.

E.g:Wherever her husband went, she would accompany him.

I hope it helps,

Iman
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Accompany - is always spelled with "double c's".

For Come / Go: These phrases may offfer a hint on how they are used naturally:

Come to me -> implication----------- I am here, you are there (come !)

Come with me -> implication-----------I am here planning to go somewhere and I am inviting you to go with me.

Come to my house for dinner tonight -> implic
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thank you but actually my problem is with the "go with me" part
i dont exactly know when and where we use it
anyway thank you so much
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If a manis planning to go to a party and he would like this lady to accompany him, he would then say " would you like to go to the party with me? Whether you use "come" or "go" , you must keep your perspective clear. A simple way is remember this: Go there / come here.
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Behnam Athank you but actually my problem is with the "go with me" part i dont exactly know when and where we use it
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