Gone vs Goe - What's the difference?
gone | goe |
Away, having left.
(figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
No longer existing, having passed.
Used up.
Dead.
(colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings
(colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
(archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 491:
(British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
* {{quote-book, year=1581, author=Anonymous, title=A Treatise Of Daunses, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Some others goe further and alledging or rather indeede abusing some peece of the Scripture
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=Black Beetles in Amber, chapter=, edition=
, passage=With divers kinds of Riddance The smoaking Earth is wet, And all aflowe to seaward goe The Torrents wide of Sweat! }}
As verbs the difference between gone and goe
is that gone is while goe is .As an adjective gone
is away, having left.As a preposition gone
is (british|informal) past, after, later than (a time).gone
English
Alternative forms
* ywent (obsolete verb form)Verb
(head)Derived terms
* gonerAdjective
(-)- Are they gone already?
- Don't both trying to understand what Grandma says, she's gone .
- He won't be going out with us tonight. Now that he's engaged, he's gone .
- Have you seen their revenue numbers? They're gone .
- The days of my youth are gone .
- I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
- Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone .
- Six nights gone , your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.
Preposition
(English prepositions)- You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
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* English irregular past participles ----goe
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