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hello I’m Emma from English if I put
these verbs in front of you you’d
probably tell me that they’re simple
they’re easy you know them right
these are simple verbs but they are
quite similar to each other it can be
hard to decide which one to use
sometimes so in this lesson we’ll take a
closer look at the differences between
them so that you can feel more confident
when you use them
am I going or am i coming these two
verbs both describe movement between the
person speaking and someone else or
something else but the difference is in
the direction of the movement when you
use come the movement is from somewhere
else to where the speaker is and when I
say somewhere else that could be the
other side of the world or it could just
be the other side of the room it doesn’t
matter what is important is the
direction of the movement from somewhere
to the speaker so in this case it’s me
so it’s from somewhere to the speaker
are you coming to our house for dinner
tonight are you coming to Melbourne next
month tell me when you’re coming to
Australia go is usually used when the
movement happens in the opposite
direction from where the speaker is to
another place are you going to Thailand
for the holidays so here the speaker
lives somewhere else not in Thailand and
they’re not in Thailand at the time of
speaking are you going to Ben’s party on
Friday so that’s from the place where
you
are or you usually are to Ben’s party
now if I was at Ben’s party and I called
you I could say are you coming to Ben’s
party so I’m asking if you’ll move from
the place where you are to Ben’s party
so I used come so far so good right now
you might be talking about another
person someone who is not the speaker or
the listener you’re talking about other
people or something else and this is
where things can get a little tricky
because you can use either come or go
look at this example my mum came to help
me so this is simple because I’m part of
this activity she came to me but here my
mum went to help my brother my mum came
to help my brother now both of these
sentences are correct I can use either
come or go but it depends on whose
viewpoint I take which person who’s
involved in the activity am i describing
or giving information about you use go
when you’re using the viewpoint of the
person doing the action my mum went to
help my brother my mum is doing the
action and you use come when you use the
receiver’s viewpoint the person who is
receiving the action my mum came to help
my brother so my brother is receiving
the action so we’ve used come now these
two verbs are made much clearer with a
door come in and go in are both ways to
instruct someone to enter a room or a
building but there’s a difference so now
both you and
our outside together so I can’t say to
you let’s go in
let’s go from where we are to another
place or inside or when I’m inside and
you’re outside I can say come in move
from where you are
towards me come inside the house okay so
let’s change the context are you coming
to Sarah’s wedding so this suggests that
the speaker will also be at the wedding
are you going to Sarah’s wedding now
this suggests that the speaker may be
not going to be there or maybe they
haven’t decided yet are you going to
visit your sister so that’s in a place
that is away from the listeners current
place
are you coming to visit your sister and
here we’re being a bit more specific the
listener is in a different place but
they’ll move to the location of their
sister and probably the speaker too so
there you have it some really important
differences to keep in mind about the
verbs go and come you thought they were
simple but maybe you learnt a couple of
new things about using them if you
enjoyed this lesson please let me know
by liking the video and writing in the
comments as well let me know what you
think and of course subscribe that red
button down there now if you’re feeling
up to the challenge you can help to
translate this lesson into your native
language to help other English learners
like you to study with this lesson you
can translate the captions that is the
white text at the bottom of this screen
and the link to do that is in the
description under this video so are you
ready to try another lesson
try either of these two right here
thanks for watching and I’ll see you
next week bye for now
hello I’m Emma from English if I put
these verbs in front of you you’d
probably tell me that they’re simple
they’re easy you know them right
these are simple verbs but they are
quite similar to each other it can be
hard to decide which one to use
sometimes so in this lesson we’ll take a
closer look at the differences between
them so that you can feel more confident
when you use them
am I going or am i coming these two
verbs both describe movement between the
person speaking and someone else or
something else but the difference is in
the direction of the movement when you
use come the movement is from somewhere
else to where the speaker is and when I
say somewhere else that could be the
other side of the world or it could just
be the other side of the room it doesn’t
matter what is important is the
direction of the movement from somewhere
to the speaker so in this case it’s me
so it’s from somewhere to the speaker
are you coming to our house for dinner
tonight are you coming to Melbourne next
month tell me when you’re coming to
Australia go is usually used when the
movement happens in the opposite
direction from where the speaker is to
another place are you going to Thailand
for the holidays so here the speaker
lives somewhere else not in Thailand and
they’re not in Thailand at the time of
speaking are you going to Ben’s party on
Friday so that’s from the place where
you
are or you usually are to Ben’s party
now if I was at Ben’s party and I called
you I could say are you coming to Ben’s
party so I’m asking if you’ll move from
the place where you are to Ben’s party
so I used come so far so good right now
you might be talking about another
person someone who is not the speaker or
the listener you’re talking about other
people or something else and this is
where things can get a little tricky
because you can use either come or go
look at this example my mum came to help
me so this is simple because I’m part of
this activity she came to me but here my
mum went to help my brother my mum came
to help my brother now both of these
sentences are correct I can use either
come or go but it depends on whose
viewpoint I take which person who’s
involved in the activity am i describing
or giving information about you use go
when you’re using the viewpoint of the
person doing the action my mum went to
help my brother my mum is doing the
action and you use come when you use the
receiver’s viewpoint the person who is
receiving the action my mum came to help
my brother so my brother is receiving
the action so we’ve used come now these
two verbs are made much clearer with a
door come in and go in are both ways to
instruct someone to enter a room or a
building but there’s a difference so now
both you and
our outside together so I can’t say to
you let’s go in
let’s go from where we are to another
place or inside or when I’m inside and
you’re outside I can say come in move
from where you are
towards me come inside the house okay so
let’s change the context are you coming
to Sarah’s wedding so this suggests that
the speaker will also be at the wedding
are you going to Sarah’s wedding now
this suggests that the speaker may be
not going to be there or maybe they
haven’t decided yet are you going to
visit your sister so that’s in a place
that is away from the listeners current
place
are you coming to visit your sister and
here we’re being a bit more specific the
listener is in a different place but
they’ll move to the location of their
sister and probably the speaker too so
there you have it some really important
differences to keep in mind about the
verbs go and come you thought they were
simple but maybe you learnt a couple of
new things about using them if you
enjoyed this lesson please let me know
by liking the video and writing in the
comments as well let me know what you
think and of course subscribe that red
button down there now if you’re feeling
up to the challenge you can help to
translate this lesson into your native
language to help other English learners
like you to study with this lesson you
can translate the captions that is the
white text at the bottom of this screen
and the link to do that is in the
description under this video so are you
ready to try another lesson
try either of these two right here
thanks for watching and I’ll see you
next week bye for now
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