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Liton Das Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Grammar

So there is a picture, I took before going/getting bald.


Now please explain a little bit when to use which one I am very much confused.

  

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I'm not quite sure about the overall sentence - perhaps I'd phrase it slightly differently but as for 'going' or 'getting', it's 'going'. You go bald, rather than get bald. You 'get cold' and 'get better' but 'go bald' or even, potentially, 'become bald'.

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  • I'm not quite sure about the overall sentence - perhaps I'd phrase it slightly differently but as for 'going' or 'getting', it's 'going'.
  • You go bald, rather than get bald.
  • You 'get cold' and 'get better' but 'go bald' or even, potentially, 'become bald'.
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I'm not quite sure about the overall sentence - perhaps I'd phrase it slightly differently but as for 'going' or 'getting', it's 'going'.

You go bald, rather than get bald.

You 'get cold' and 'get better' but 'go bald' or even, potentially, 'become bald'.

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Liton Daswhen to use which one

The concept "getting" is preferentially expressed as "going" for a few adjectives. The ones that come to mind immediately are

going bald, going gray, going crazy, going mad (and virtually all synonyms of 'crazy')

In slightly different senses we also have going wrong and going easy (on someone)

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