Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place

• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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