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Right Sentence Posted 9 years ago
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What is the proper sentence?

Can you go get the keys?

or

Can you go to get the keys?

  

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Right Sentence Can you go get the keys? or Can you go to get the keys? Both are possible.

— CalifJim

  • Right Sentence Can you go get the keys?
  • or Can you go to get the keys?
  • Both are possible.
  • " which is probably the one I hear most often where I live.
  • CJ
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Right Sentence

Can you go get the keys?

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Can you go to get the keys?

Both are possible. And so is "Can you go and get the keys?" which is probably the one I hear most often where I live.

CJ

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Right SentenceCan you go get the keys?

This is American English in particular.

Right SentenceCan you go to get the keys?

This would be used in British English, which also has the possibility of replacing "to" with and.

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I am a BrE speaker and I would only say "Can you go and get the keys?". "Can you go get the keys?", as mentioned, is AmE, while "Can you go to get the keys?" feels unnatural to me, though "I went to get the keys", "He went to get the keys" etc. seem fine.

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