8/5/11 Difference Between Went and Gone Went vs Gone The differences between "went" and "gone" are that "went" is used for the simple past tense For example He went to school "Gone" is used in two different tenses It is used in the present perfect tense with "has" For example He has gone to school It is also used in the1 You can omit 'to' after 'go' It's a common enough expression even though the road stays in the same place and doesn't actually go anywhere It means 'Where does this road lead to?' 2 This is a different meaning of 'go'Home goes from being an adverb (modifying go), to a noun which forms a part of an adverbial prepositional phrase (I don't believe it fits the definition of the indirect object the going is not happening to the house, but rather toward it Perhaps I'm wrong here) Home is a rare word that forms an adverb in this form
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