Not many… Heres what i came up with though:
Go to great lengths
Go to an extreme
Go to bat for something
Go to town on something
Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoDifferent usage. You wouldn’t say “I’m going to prove.” or tell someone “Go to prove.” Are there any examples of “I’m going to [word].” or “Go to [word].” where the [word] is not a physical place?
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Still different usages because they require more words to make sense. “Go to sleep” is a weird figure of speech.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Now you’re moving the goalposts :p
I agree it is a rare structure.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
No, I’m not. Notice the period. That was very deliberate.
Are there any examples of “Go to [word].”
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Yes. We regularly say “go to [verb]”.
Go to eat
Go to learn
Go to exercise
Saying “go to sleep” is exectly the same.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Not exactly. Compare being told “Go to sleep!” with “Go to eat!” “Go to learn!” “Go to exercise!” It makes sense grammatically, but nobody says it like that. They sound like something a non-native speaker would say.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
It is grammatically correct to use them. It’s the same rule. We’re just used to using/hearing one but not the others.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yes, I said it was grammatically correct. However, one phrase is actually used by native speakers of the language, the others are not. So there is a difference.