(I'm going to go to Canada is fine, too)Ī: Nowhere. Doesn't change anything except you've shortened your mode of expressing your intention).Ī: I'm going to Canada. I may be going out to watch it, or I might just be doing it at home).
Go hard or go home meaning movie#
This usually occurs at the movie theaters/theatre, cinema, whatever the hell your dialect of English is).
(Implies I need to go out, or away, to watch the movie. Similarly for activities that can be done in many different places, let's use "watch a movie". The sentence construction "I'm going noun" seems to work fine for certain places and activities but then not others. It would function in the same way as "I'm going home tonight". Also, in the first sentence, you could take out the "to go". In the second, it sounds more like you're going to do it in the house (possibly just to annoy her or something). Here, the first example sounds like you intend to go play a game of golf once your wife arrives. As said previously by another commenter, they need more context. I had to modify the sentences a little here to get a better feel for how the words might be used. I am going to golf when my wife gets home. I am going (to go) golfing when my wife gets home. Don't wait for me), we don't use their names to refer to playing the sport. Unlike other sports, except in slang (I'm gonna go ball, Mom.
That one is special considering that "golf" can be used as a verb meaning "play golf" and with that being said, golfing would then be a noun for playing golf as running is to run. If you were to be playing in the game, you would most likely use "play" instead of go. Intuitively, if I heard either, I would assume you have an intention to watch a game. And you wouldn't say "a game", you might use "the game" for any other intention. If you're not watching, you would use other words like play or work or something else. Most likely to watch, because what else are you going to do at the game. The constant scrolling up and down makes me not. This post is from a long time ago but I decided to put in my two cents (also, forgive me if my grammar and referencing is poor. = (I already talked to him about this and we have already made a schedule) Grammatically, the difference is that "Be V+ing" is used to talk about an action that has already been decided AND arranged (prepared). This is why in spoken English, it's Ok to interchange them.
To answer your question, both "Be Going to + V" and "Be V+ing (Future Meaning) are used to talk about decided actions. Here are some expressions you need to learn first: But most of your examples are mixed up and confused so we need to clarify a few things. Your problem, basically, is the difference between "Be Going to + V" and the Present Continuous (Be + V+ing) with Future Meaning. I think the combination of these dichotomies between them explain your sentences. So saying "go to shopping" doesn't usually make sense, because it implies that there is an organised 'event' called "shopping" that you go to regularly, and that's not usually the case with shopping. "go to golf/chess club/rugby practice etc" tends to imply going along to an 'organised event' that happens on a regular basis."go golfing" tends to indicate something of an 'active' participation in an event, and usually one where you make a 'trip' to a particular place to carry out the activity then come back.Then, parallel to these different uses of "go", you need to take account of the following differences: "going to" where "to" is a regular preposition vs "to" as a complementiser (i.e."going" used as part of a progressive tense of "go" with the actual notion of movement vs "going" when part of the periphrastic future construction "going to.", bearing in mind that a present progressive can actually indicate a future action (as in "I'm going to Canada", just as "I'm seeing Dave tomorrow" also implies a future action with the verb "see").It's firstly important to separate out the cases of "going":