Name: 13 Phrasal Verbs with GO: go for, go on, go along, go ahead...
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In today's video, I'm going to give you a bunch more phrasal verbs to work with, and we're going to concentrate on the verb go.

Now, again, just to refresh our memories, a phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a preposition, and oftentimes the meaning is very different from the two words individually.

Some of the meanings can be very literal, meaning the words themselves.

Other meanings can be completely unrelated to the two words.

If you go for something, it means you're going to try it, you're going to try to do something.

Somebody says, do you want to learn how to paint?

If you say go for it, it means you will try to do something specifically, or you'll go for it, it means you'll try to succeed in something, you'll try to accomplish something.

Another meaning of go for means to attack or to specifically target something.

So, if you're fighting someone, for example, and you're punching them, and then you go for the face, it means you're trying to punch them in the face.

Another meaning of go for, when you're talking about a choice of something, you...

When you make the choice, you can say you could go for that thing, or you can go for it.

So, that's what I would feel like, that's what I would choose to have right now.

When you go up against someone or a group or a company, for example, it means you're fighting them.

It doesn't have to be, like, a physical fight or violent fight, it means you're engaging in some sort of confrontation.

If somebody is trying to attack you, you will go up against them and you will try to fight.

If a company is trying to change some rules or some situation, environmental, a group of activists might go up against them.

They might try to stop them and make them not succeed in their plans.

That's the most common use of go up against.

You could say something goes up against the wall, but that's a little bit more literal and not as commonly used.

When somebody says I'm going away for a few days, it means they're travelling.

In most cases, it means go on vacation, but it could just mean leave the place, go to another location altogether out of the town, out of town for an extended period.

I'm going away for a while, for example, I'm going to another city.

Sometimes, if somebody says he's going away for a while, it could also suggest a medical situation or an addiction, like going to a rehab centre.

So, if somebody says he's going away for a while, he's going to the rehabilitation centre.

Or, in some cases, it could mean going to prison.

So, he's going away for a long time means he's going to jail for a long time.

Another meaning of go away is just disappear, right?

If you're having problems at the office and you just want it to go away, but it doesn't, that's what that means.

If you tell someone go away, it means just leave me alone or just leave, literally leave.

You could just go by someone's house, you mean go for a visit or just go to a place, literally.

Another meaning is basically to call something by a certain name.

This company goes by the name of whatever, Acme Explosives, etc.

So, going by history or going by precedent, this is what should happen next.

So, based on or judging by history, this is what should happen next.

Go by can also just mean past, go past something, go by it, don't stop until you pass it.

So, if somebody says to you go ahead, it means continue, right?

I have something to say, yeah, go ahead, say it.

Or it could just mean start, to begin something.

So, this project cannot go ahead without the approval of head office.

Say something, yeah, you can go ahead, means you can start.

Or another meaning, go ahead means go forward in front of the others, right?

Go ahead, go to the front of the line, ahead of other people, in front of other people.

Sometimes I don't even remember what all the meanings are.

So, go out can mean literally go out of the place, so leave.

So, if you go out with somebody, you're going on a date with somebody.

In the case of a fire, it means extinguished.

In case of a light, it just means the power went off.

Go all out, if you're going to go all out and you're doing something, that means you're not holding anything back.

You're going to put 100% effort in order to achieve your goal or your target or whatever it is you're doing.

Go along can mean literally just walk along the side of a place, like you go along the river path.

We often use with if we will specify what the thing is, means to agree to or to agree with something.

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