How you doing? This is Greg from OLA English with Greg and in this
lesson I'm going to teach you the difference between come and go, bring and
take, and been and gone. Let's go!
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First: come and go.
What's the difference between come and go? It's very simple, you've just got to
think: where is the speaker? Alright, currently I am without an office so I'm
using my good friend Javi's house to record these videos. Javi is at work at
the moment but he will come here when he's finished. He will come here when
he's finished. I'm speaking, I'm in a Javi's house so when he's finished work
he will come here, to where I am, to where the speaker is. If I call Javi and ask
him the same question, 'what time are you coming home?' he will say I'm going home
in 10 minutes. I'm going home in 10 minutes, because again, the speaker is in
a different place and he's going there in 10 minutes.
Alright, so you go there and you come here. That's a very important sentence to
learn because it helps us learn the difference between go and come and also
there and here. You go there you, come here.
Alright, the past of go is: go - went - I have gone. But sometimes we say 'I have
been', right? I have been, I have gone... what's the difference? Let me give you
two examples and we'll look at the different implications of these two
sentences. My mum has gone to the supermarket / my mum has been to the
supermarket. My mum has gone to the supermarket means
that she left the house, she went to the supermarket and at this moment she is
still in the supermarket. Where's your mum? She's gone to the supermarket. The
second example, my mum has been to the supermarket means
that she left the house, she went to the supermarket, she did the shopping, she
came home and now she's home again. Alright, she is where she started. So it
means she's gone and come back she's been to the supermarket. The cupboards
are full! Yes! Why are the cupboards full? Because mum has been to the supermarket!
The difference between bring and take is a very similar thing to go and come. You
go there, you come here, you take something there, and you bring something
here. If you're in a bar and you ask the waiter for a beer you ask him, 'can you
bring me a beer please?' You want the waiter to give you the beer
here. So you sit back and you enjoy your beer and oh it's disgusting, it's
horrible, you can't drink! It, it's just so bad, so you get up and you take your beer
back. You take your beer to the bar, you take your beer there and you ask your
waiter to bring you another beer here.
If you've liked this I have a I have a playlist
of similar videos where I explain commonly confused words in English. You
can watch that playlist by clicking up there, I recommend you do that now! Thank
you so much for being here. Take care and bye for now!
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