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File tile 16 Posted 4 years ago
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Is this sentence right?

I have read the following sentence in a book:

You better go get your dog out of there!

To me it sounds a bit strange. Can there be a mistake? Can the correct form be:

You better go to get your dog out of there!

  

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file tile 16 Can the correct form be: You better go to get your dog out of there! No, "go get" is correct in this context. In fact, the full form might be "go and get", but it is not "go to get".

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  • file tile 16 Can the correct form be: You better go to get your dog out of there!
  • No, "go get" is correct in this context.
  • In fact, the full form might be "go and get", but it is not "go to get".
  • That is not to say that "go to get" is wrong in other contexts: Alice: Why did you go out?
  • Bob: I went to get some groceries.
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file tile 16Can the correct form be: You better go to get your dog out of there!

No, "go get" is correct in this context. In fact, the full form might be "go and get", but it is not "go to get". That is not to say that "go to get" is wrong in other contexts:

Alice: Why did you go out?

Bob: I went to get some groceries.

If you want to corre

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Can there be a mistake? Yes, but it's commonly said that rway


Can the correct form be:

You better go to get your dog out of there!

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file tile 16go get

This is common in American English instead of go and get.

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