Go sneeze

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1. he goes sneeze.1-1. He sneezes.2. He goes a-choo3. He sneezes a-choo.What is the difference between 1and 1-1? Does 2 sound ok? Thank you

Fivejedjon · Accepted Answer

onizoWhat is the difference between 1and 1-1?

#1 is not correct. #2 is not natural and #3 is just wrong.

Clive · Answer

Only #1-1 is correct English.

Onizo · Answer

Thank you.

how about the difference between
A. I want to go sneeze and
B. I want to sneeze?

I believe that you do use the #A, but what is the slightest difference that people would put "go"?

And for my #2 above, it may be unnatural, but it isn't totally wrong, is it? Is it possible that children would use such form?

Fivejedjon · Answer

onizoA. I want to go sneeze andB. I want to sneeze?

A is completely wrong.

B is possible, but unlikely.

Onizo · Answer

I see

Harry Potter chapter 10: I have to go sneeze...

CalifJim · Answer

onizoHarry Potter chapter 10

I thought there were seven different "Harry Potter" books. Rather than have us spend hours researching it, why not give us the whole sentence and the sentence before it?

Meanwhile, maybe the following links are related to your question. You might read them and see if they explain anything you're interested in.

CJ

Onizo · Answer

Thank you CJ.

Um...I didn't know there were that many Harry Potter books. I just got the line from the online search and didn't think much about anything else.
It's just that it's incomprehensible that one can't say such words together.
It may not be a daily conversational phrases or sentences, but doesn't it hold a sound grammar structure and some meaning you can comprehend?

CalifJim · Answer

onizoIt may not be a daily conversational ~~phrases or sentences~~ phrase or sentence ...

No, it certainly is not. The only thing I was able to find online on the subject was

I have to go sneeze ... over there.

It simply leaves out 'and': I have to go and sneeze ... over there.

Isolated, it means nothing of any interest, so I take it you have to know the plot of the story in some detail to make sense of it.

if you read the posts I linked you to, you'll get the idea that there are a very few cases where the omission of 'and' occurs with 'go' and 'come', and connection with the verb 'sneeze' is quite unusual in my opinion.

In any case, even if we allow a special case for 'sneeze', you can't have He goes sneeze because it's not the omission of 'and' from a grammatical sentence. The grammatical form is He goes and sneezes, so the form without 'and' is He goes sneezes. Even though you may think this is a valid candidate for "omission of 'and' after 'go'", this last form sounds so very bad that you would be hard-pressed to find anybody who thought it was grammatical.

CJ

Onizo · Answer

Thank you, CJ for the effort you put in.

Anonymous · Answer

CalifJimNo, it certainly is not. The only thing I was able to find online on the subject wasI have to go sneeze ... over there.It simply leaves out 'and': I have to go and sneeze ... over there.

Isn't this part of American English in particular? I haven't heard other English speakers do that.

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