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Laborious Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
"He is gone to NY" or "He has gone to NY", please
Hi teachers:
Is it correct to say "He is gone to New York"?
I think it a wrong sentence. We should, instead, say "He has gone to New York".
Please help, thank you.
Is it correct to say "He is gone to New York"?
I think it a wrong sentence. We should, instead, say "He has gone to New York".
Please help, thank you.
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Laborious We should, instead, say "He has gone to New York". In ordinary modern English, correct. " sounds old-fashioned, poetic, etc.
- Laborious We should, instead, say "He has gone to New York".
- In ordinary modern English, correct.
- " sounds old-fashioned, poetic, etc.
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LaboriousWe should, instead, say "He has gone to New York".In ordinary modern English, correct.
"He is gone to ..." sounds old-fashioned, poetic, etc.
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Thanks, teacher GPY, for your helpful response. But could you please tell me what the structure of "He is gone to New York" is? I'm still a little confused about how "He is gone to ..." can be correct. I know we can say "He has gone to New York" (means He is still in NY. He hasn't returned yet.) or "He has been to New York" (means He is no longer in New York; he has returned), but I don't know wh
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"He is gone to New York" means the same as "He has gone to New York" (but, as I mentioned, with an archaic or poetic feel). I believe that "is gone" is a vestige of an old way of forming the present perfect tense using the auxiliary verb "be" rather than "have".
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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