go to

To move towards a place or pass into someone’s possession.

• Let us go to the park.
• The money went to her children.
• Does this bus go to the station?

How to use it: go to + place (We go to the beach every summer.); go to someone (The prize went to the youngest player.)

Common phrases: go to something, go to someone, go to the park

To attend an event or visit a place to see something.

• I want to go to the party.
• We went to a football match last weekend.
• Have you ever gone to that museum?

How to use it: go to + event/place (We went to a concert on Friday.)

Similar words: attend, visit

Common phrases: go to a concert, go to a party, go to the cinema

To be a student at a school, college, or university.

• My children go to school.
• She went to college in her hometown.
• Which university did you go to?

How to use it: go to + school/college/university (My sister goes to university in Madrid.)

Similar words: attend, study at

Common phrases: go to school, go to college, go to university

To help show that a point or argument is true.

• These findings go to my point.
• Her testimony went to the claim that the warnings were ignored.
• The study goes to our argument about unequal access.

How to use it: go to + point/argument (This evidence goes to the argument that the rule is unfair.)

Similar words: support, back up

Opposites: undermine

Common phrases: go to something, go to the point

A computer instruction that makes a program continue from a different place in its code.

• This program contains a go to.
• The go to sends execution to line twenty.
• Can you replace that go to with a loop?

Similar words: goto, jump statement

Common phrases: a go to, go to statement