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Brookee Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

"go to" versus "go to THE"

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00Why do we say, 02br
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0 Welcome to the Forums, Brookee, 02br 00There are the names of some of the places in English that can be used either with"the" or without it, but the meaning is different. The list include school, jail, hospital, church, town and a few other. If you say, for example, that you go to school, you're a student and you go to school every day.

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  • 0 Welcome to the Forums, Brookee, 02br 00There are the names of some of the places in English that can be used either with"the" or without it, but the meaning is different.
  • The list include school, jail, hospital, church, town and a few other.
  • If you say, for example, that you go to school, you're a student and you go to school every day.
  • But for example your mum goes to the school ( that you study there) to attend a teacher-parent meeting (she's not going there everyday).
  • If you go to hospital, you work there; if you go to jail, you're gonna stay there foe a while for commiting a crime,...
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0 Welcome to the Forums, Brookee, 02br
00There are the names of some of the places in English that can be used either with"the" or without it, but the meaning is different. The list include school, jail, hospital, church, town and a few other. If you say, for example, that you go to school, you're a student and you go to school every day. But for example your mum goes to the school
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