Two basic types of movement sentences.

  • Learning Objectives:
  • There are 2 basic types of movement sentences: GO-type & PUT-type.
  • Using INTO we can see why we don’t need the verb to understand the type of movement and understand the scene.

‘Go-type’ structure with INTO:

We can think of a ‘Go-type’ sentence with INTO as creating this basic meme:

Any verb we use in this structure will mean ‘go’ in some way. The structure gives the ‘go’ meaning to whatever verb we put there!

‘Put-type’ structure with INTO:

We can think of a ‘Put-type’ sentence with INTO as creating this basic meme:

Any verb we use in this structure will mean ‘put’ in some way. The structure gives this meaning to whatever verb we put there!