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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

'I am coming / going at you'

Some blogger says 'I am coming at you' and 'I am coming to get you' are right but 'I am going at you' and 'I am going to get you' are wrong. But I do not agree with this and 'come / go at you' mean 'attack someone', so they should be 'come / go to you', according to his interpretation. So do you think that 'coming' is right but 'going' is wrong here all the time and come / go at mean attack someone, right?

Thank you so much as usual in advance.
  

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These are all informal expressions. However, the correct common expressions are I am coming at you. I am coming to get you.

— Doctor D

  • These are all informal expressions.
  • However, the correct common expressions are I am coming at you.
  • I am coming to get you.
  • I am going to get you.
  • " (This is wrong.
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These are all informal expressions. However, the correct common expressions are
I am coming at you.
I am coming to get you.
I am going to get you.

I have not heard "I am going at you." (This is wrong. It would imply that you are attacking the person as you speak--if so, why do you need to tell them that?)
You can also say "I am going to have a go at you." (I am going to
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Thank you so much and I know that 'be going to' means doing something in the future but can we also use it for the meaning of ongoing things like

I am going to see you now = I am moving there to see you now.

So 'be going to V' can mean future thing and ongoing thing, right?

What do you think? Or it should be 'I am going to you to see'?
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I am coming to get you. OK. This is a threat of an attack from a distance.
I am going to get you. OK. This can mean taking some sort of revenge. It is not necessarily a physical attack, but retribution. Sometimes it is just for fun, as in a game of "tag."

This is informal:
I'm coming at you. This is in the context of a physical confrontation. It is a threateni
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Hans51Thank you so much and I know that 'be going to' means doing something in the future but can we also use it for the meaning of ongoing things like
This is a different question from the original, which was asking about some idioms, or casual language.

"be going to" is not an idiom, but a way of talking about future plans or actions.
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Thank you and I would like to know if 'be going to V' also is used for the meaning of moving there to V like

I am going to meet her now (= I am moving there now physically to meet her )

I am going to buy books (= I am walking to the book store to buy books)

Or "be going to V" is always used for the future happening?
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"I am going to see you now"--yes, the only logical meaning is that you are on the phone telling the person that you are just leaving and are on the way to them. However, it would be an odd way of saying it. A more common expression would be something like: "I will see you shortly."

"To be going to..." is almost always future action. If you want present action, you would simply say "goi
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Let me discuss your two examples.
Normally "going" can mean either or two things. Either it means "traveling" (action) or else it means "planning" (intention).

"I am going to meet her now." Since you said "now," the meaning of "going" is "traveling." If you had just said "I am going to meet her," then it would be unclear. It could mean that you are leaving to meet her or it could
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