In most cases the past participle of go is gone, but occasionally you use `been': see been.
1 [VERB] V prep/adv, V prep/adv, V prep/adv, V amount
When you go somewhere, you move or travel there.
We went to Rome...
Gladys had just gone into the kitchen...
I went home at the weekend...
It took us an hour to go three miles.
2 [VERB] V, V
When you go, you leave the place where you are.
Let's go...
She's going tomorrow.
3 [VERB] V -ing, V -ing, V for n
You use go to say that someone leaves the place where they are and does an activity, often a leisure activity.
We went swimming very early...
Maybe they've just gone shopping...
He went for a walk.
4 [VERB] V to-inf, V and v, V inf
When you go to do something, you move to a place in order to do it and you do it. You can also go and do something, and in American English, you can go do something. However, you always say that someone went and did something.
His second son, Paddy, had gone to live in Canada...
I must go and see this film...
Go ask whoever you want.
5 [VERB] V to n, V to n
If you go to school, work, or church, you attend it regularly as part of your normal life.
She will have to go to school...
His son went to a top university in America.
6 [VERB] V prep/adv
When you say where a road or path goes, you are saying where it begins or ends, or what places it is in.
There's a mountain road that goes from Blairstown to Millbrook Village.
= lead
7 [VERB] with brd-neg, V -ing, V -ing
You can use go in expressions such as `don't go telling everybody', in order to express disapproval of the kind of behaviour you mention, or to tell someone not to behave in that way.
You don't have to go running upstairs every time she rings...
Don't you go thinking it was your fault.
8 [VERB] V adv/prep, V adv/prep
You can use go with words like `further' and `beyond' to show the degree or extent of something.
He went even further in his speech to the conference...
Some physicists have gone so far as to suggest that the entire Universe is a sort of gigantic computer.
9 [VERB] V adv
If you say that a period of time goes quickly or slowly, you mean that it seems to pass quickly or slowly.
The weeks go so quickly!
= pass
10 [VERB] V prep/adv, V prep/adv
If you say where money goes, you are saying what it is spent on.
Most of my money goes on bills...
The money goes to projects chosen by the wider community.
11 [VERB] V to n, V to n
If you say that something goes to someone, you mean that it is given to them.
A lot of credit must go to the chairman and his father...
The job went to Yuri Skokov, a capable administrator.
12 [VERB] V on n, V on n
If someone goes on television or radio, they take part in a television or radio programme.
The Turkish president has gone on television to defend stringent new security measures...
We went on the air, live, at 7.30.
13 [VERB] V, V
If something goes, someone gets rid of it.
The Institute of Export now fears that 100,000 jobs will go...
If people stand firm against the tax, it is only a matter of time before it has to go.
14 [VERB] V
If someone goes, they leave their job, usually because they are forced to.
He had made a humiliating tactical error and he had to go.
15 [VERB] V into/in n
If something goes into something else, it is put in it as one of the parts or elements that form it.
...the really interesting ingredients that go into the dishes that we all love to eat.
16 [VERB] V, V prep/adv
If something goes in a particular place, it fits in that place or should be put there because it is the right size or shape.
He was trying to push it through the hole and it wouldn't go.
...This knob goes here.
17 [VERB] V prep/adv, V prep/adv
If something goes in a particular place, it belongs there or should be put there, because that is where you normally keep it.
The shoes go on the shoe shelf...
`Where does everything go?'
18 [VERB] V into num
If you say that one number goes into another number a particular number of times, you are dividing the second number by the first.
Six goes into thirty five times.
19 [VERB] V, V
If one of a person's senses, such as their sight or hearing, is going, it is getting weak and they may soon lose it completely. (INFORMAL)
His eyes are going; he says he has glaucoma...
Lately he'd been making mistakes; his nerve was beginning to go.
= fail
20 [VERB] V
If something such as a light bulb or a part of an engine is going, it is no longer working properly and will soon need to be replaced.
I thought it looked as though the battery was going.
(go goes going went gone) LINK VERB USES
1 [V-LINK] V adj, V adj, V prep
You can use go to say that a person or thing changes to another state or condition. For example, if someone goes crazy, they become crazy, and if something goes green, it changes colour and becomes green.
I'm going bald...
You'd better serve it to them before it goes cold...
50,000 companies have gone out of business.
2 [V-LINK] V adj, V adj
You can use go when indicating whether or not someone wears or has something. For example, if someone goes barefoot, they do not wear any shoes.
The baby went naked on the beach...
But if you arm the police won't more criminals go armed?
3 [V-LINK] V -ed
You can use go before adjectives beginning with `un-' to say that something does not happen. For example, if something goes unheard, nobody hears it.
As President, he affirmed that no tyranny went unnoticed.
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