"I went" vs "have gone" - Know the difference! — Transcript

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1. 0:00Do you honestly know the difference
2. 0:03between these sentences?
3. 0:05She went to London. She has gone to
4. 0:09London.
5. 0:10If you're not sure,
6. 0:12do not worry. Lots of people are
7. 0:15confused by this, but I am going to
8. 0:18clear up your doubts. No more confusion
9. 0:21on went and have gone. And we will look
10. 0:24at have been as well as a bonus to make
11. 0:27sure you remember everything that you
12. 0:29learn today.
13. 0:31Download the PDF that goes with this
14. 0:33lesson. It's free. It contains
15. 0:35everything we talk about today, and it
16. 0:38has a quiz to test your knowledge and a
17. 0:41link to some interactive activities. If
18. 0:43you'd like to download that for free,
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22. 0:53let's begin.
23. 0:54Went and gone are both past forms of go.
24. 0:59Went is the past simple, and gone is the
25. 1:03past participle. I pronounce gone with
26. 1:07the short aw vowel sound to rhyme with
27. 1:10on.
28. 1:11Gone.
29. 1:13In North American accents, it often has
30. 1:15a longer vowel sound like aw.
31. 1:19Gone. I need to invite in my American
32. 1:21friend to do a little demonstration for
33. 1:23you. Joel.
34. 1:24>> Gone.
35. 1:26>> Thank you. Gone is usually used with a
36. 1:28form of the auxiliary to have. In the
37. 1:31present perfect simple, it's have or
38. 1:34has. I have gone. She has gone. But in
39. 1:38speech, have is usually contracted to
40. 1:42of, apostrophe v e. I've gone. And in he
41. 1:47has gone, has is contracted to z,
42. 1:51apostrophe s. He's gone. Now, you will
43. 1:56hear some speakers say have went or has
44. 2:01went.
45. 2:02This is not standard English, but it is
46. 2:05used in certain dialects. Don't use this
47. 2:08in an exam. We're going to focus on the
48. 2:10standard forms went and have gone in
49. 2:14this lesson.
50. 2:15Let's examine the sentences from the
51. 2:17introduction. We're focusing on the
52. 2:19meaning of to go as in to travel or to
53. 2:23move to another place. So, she went to
54. 2:26London.
55. 2:28We know went is the past simple. This
56. 2:31describes a completed action at a time
57. 2:34before now. Often, we use a finished
58. 2:37time expression such as last week or 2
59. 2:42years ago. She went to London last week.
60. 2:46Using went simply tells you that the
61. 2:48action of traveling or moving to another
62. 2:51place is finished.
63. 2:54The tense alone does not tell you if
64. 2:57she's still in London or not. Now,
65. 3:00compare that with our second sentence.
66. 3:03She's gone to London. We see the present
67. 3:07perfect simple has gone.
68. 3:09We use this tense in a few ways, but one
69. 3:12is to talk about things that happened in
70. 3:14the past but are relevant in the
71. 3:17present.
72. 3:19This would answer a question like,
73. 3:21"Where's Claire?"
74. 3:22She's gone to London. She is either in
75. 3:25London or she is traveling there or on
76. 3:29her way back. This has relevance in the
77. 3:31present as someone is asking where she
78. 3:34is now. There's no finished time
79. 3:37expression. Remember, if we want to use
80. 3:39a finished time expression, we use went.
81. 3:43Let's say someone asks, "Is Rob here?"
82. 3:47We might reply, "He went to the shop
83. 3:50about an hour ago."
84. 3:52Or we can say, he's gone to the shop.
85. 3:56He'll probably be back soon. Based on
86. 3:58the rules we just talked about, how
87. 4:00would you complete these sentences? We
88. 4:04to Derbyshire last year. We had a great
89. 4:09time.
90. 4:10And my parents
91. 4:13to Derbyshire.
92. 4:15They are having a great time. So, the
93. 4:19first one would be went. It's a finished
94. 4:23action.
95. 4:25We had a great time. The second would be
96. 4:29have gone because they are still there.
97. 4:33They are having a great time. Have gone
98. 4:36is a common structure in British
99. 4:37English. When asked the question,
100. 4:40"Where's Ollie?" many British English
101. 4:43speakers will reply, "He's gone to the
102. 4:45gym." But other British English speakers
103. 4:48and many North Americans will choose the
104. 4:51past simple instead. He went to the gym.
105. 4:55Sometimes went and have gone communicate
106. 4:59the message equally well and there's no
107. 5:01real difference in meaning. The same is
108. 5:04true about this next question with gone.
109. 5:07In British English, we'd usually ask,
110. 5:09"Where's Emma gone? She was here a
111. 5:12moment ago."
112. 5:14Meaning, I saw her very recently. Where
113. 5:16is she now? But other speakers,
114. 5:18especially in North America, might say,
115. 5:22"Where did Emma go? She was here a
116. 5:25moment ago." Now, people will understand
117. 5:27you no matter which tense you use here.
118. 5:30We often use the adverbs just, yet, and
119. 5:33already with have gone. For example,
120. 5:36Tom's just gone to grab something to
121. 5:38eat. He'll be back in a sec. Sec is
122. 5:42short for second. Or, have they gone
123. 5:45home already? Or, Tom just went to grab
124. 5:48something to eat. You'll hear this in
125. 5:51British and North American English. Or
126. 5:54did they go home already?
127. 5:57That's more common in North American
128. 5:58English. You'll also see went and have
129. 6:02gone followed by an ing verb, meaning
130. 6:05someone goes to do something.
131. 6:08For example, Kelly went fishing
132. 6:11yesterday.
133. 6:12Or Kelly's gone fishing. And followed by
134. 6:16an adjective, meaning to become.
135. 6:19My hands went numb when I was out in the
136. 6:22cold. Or my hands have gone numb.
137. 6:26They're numb now. The most important
138. 6:28thing to remember is not to use a
139. 6:31finished time expression with have gone.
140. 6:34So, this is incorrect. He's gone out an
141. 6:38hour ago.
142. 6:39Mhm.
143. 6:41I've gone swimming last week.
144. 6:44Absolutely not. You should say, he went
145. 6:48out an hour ago.
146. 6:50I went swimming last week. For
147. 6:54additional examples with other meanings
148. 6:56of go,
149. 6:58download the PDF. The link is in the
150. 7:00description box, or you can scan that QR
151. 7:02code there. It's a really useful one.
152. 7:05Okay, so that's went and have gone.
153. 7:08Before we move on, I want to touch on
154. 7:11had gone.
155. 7:12This is the past perfect used when one
156. 7:16past action happened before another. For
157. 7:19example, he'd already gone home by the
158. 7:24time I arrived. Both events are in the
159. 7:27past, but had gone makes it clear which
160. 7:31one came first. Again, download the PDF
161. 7:35for more information.
162. 7:37Let's move on to our bonus structure
163. 7:38now. What is the difference between
164. 7:41these sentences?
165. 7:43They've gone to Spain. They've been to
166. 7:46Spain.
167. 7:47Well, we know that have gone means they
168. 7:50haven't returned yet. They are in Spain
169. 7:54or perhaps traveling there or traveling
170. 7:57back. Have been means that they traveled
171. 8:00to Spain and came back. Been is the past
172. 8:03participle of be, but it's also often
173. 8:07treated as a past participle of go. In
174. 8:10fast speech, we tend to pronounce been
175. 8:13with the short i sound, bin. They've
176. 8:16been to Spain. See if you can complete
177. 8:19these examples. Use gone or been.
178. 8:23Where have you
179. 8:25I missed you.
180. 8:27Where has Jack
181. 8:29I miss him.
182. 8:31Okay, the first one is
183. 8:34been.
184. 8:35They went and came back and the speaker
185. 8:38is talking to them now.
186. 8:40So, the second one should be gone. Jack
187. 8:44is not here and the speaker misses him.
188. 8:47The question, have you ever been or have
189. 8:50you ever been is commonly used to ask
190. 8:52about life experiences up to now.
191. 8:56We don't tend to use ever in questions
192. 8:59with gone. Compare these two.
193. 9:02Have you ever been on a roller coaster
194. 9:05at any point in your life? Has he gone
195. 9:08on the roller coaster? I thought he was
196. 9:10too scared.
197. 9:11Meaning
198. 9:12is he on the roller coaster now? Now,
199. 9:15can you remember how to ask questions
200. 9:17with go in the past? You heard one
201. 9:20slightly earlier in the video.
202. 9:23Did you go? Not did you went.
203. 9:27An example, did you go on the roller
204. 9:29coaster yesterday? We can also use gone
205. 9:32as an adjective, usually after the verb
206. 9:35to be.
207. 9:37It means having left a place.
208. 9:40Lily's been gone for about an hour. She
209. 9:43left about an hour ago. Or I didn't see
210. 9:47Liam or Faith at the party.
211. 9:50They were gone before I got there.
212. 9:53They left before I arrived. Lastly, I
213. 9:56want to mention the idiomatic phrase
214. 9:59been and gone.
215. 10:00This means that someone was in a place
216. 10:03for a short time and then left. Notice
217. 10:05how I use the weak form of and.
218. 10:08Been and gone. And been and gone. You
219. 10:12will also hear people say bin and gone.
220. 10:15Bin and gone. Now, let's say someone
221. 10:17asks has Dylan been to see you?
222. 10:21You might reply, yes, but he's been and
223. 10:24gone. He was in a rush.
224. 10:26He was here for a moment and then he
225. 10:28left. Okay, let's finish with a quick
226. 10:31three question quiz. Complete the
227. 10:34sentences with went, has gone, or has
228. 10:37been. Use each once.
229. 10:40One.
230. 10:41She
231. 10:43to Glasgow. She'll be back tomorrow.
232. 10:46Two.
233. 10:48She
234. 10:49to Glasgow yesterday.
235. 10:52And three. She
236. 10:55to Glasgow, but I'm not sure when.
237. 11:01Okay, number one should be
238. 11:03has gone. Because she traveled there and
239. 11:06is still there.
240. 11:08Some speakers would use went here. Two
241. 11:11should always be went. The past simple
242. 11:15with a finished time expression. And
243. 11:18three is has been. Because she traveled
244. 11:20there at some point and then returned.
245. 11:23How did you do? What was your score out
246. 11:25of three? Let me know in the comments.
247. 11:28And with that, we've reached the end of
248. 11:30the lesson. There's lots more to study
249. 11:32and another quiz and some interactive
250. 11:35activities. You can access that for free
251. 11:37by downloading the PDF. The link is in
252. 11:39the description box or you can scan the
253. 11:42QR code there. I will see you in the
254. 11:44next lesson. Bye.
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