I'm Alice Bryant.

Well, it's a summer afternoon in Washington, D.

C.

And that can only mean one thing free concerts in the park.

And it's almost time for me to go meet my friends.

Oh, wait.

But first I need to go get money from the cash machine.

The concert is free, but the food and drinks are not in English conversation.

We often add the verb go toe, other verbs.

The structure is go plus verb and we use the base form of the verb, the shortest form with no s ending.

Using go doesn't affect the meaning of what we're saying.

It simply makes our speech sound more natural and less formal.

If I had said it's almost time for me to meet my friends, for example, it would have sounded fine but a little less conversational.

Look and listen for the structure in this short exchange.

Do you have plans for Friday night?

Let's go see that new movie about the family in San Francisco.

Perfect.

I've been wanting to see that for a month.

Go plus verb is especially common with some burbs such as?

Yes, see find, ask check and by.

Well, that's all for now.

Go listen for this form wherever you hear English being used, and that's everyday grammar.