Easy English expression rehashed.
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Today's expression.
Very, very good expression to go down.
Now to go down can be a phrasal verb, but I want to talk about a different meaning.
And this can be very confusing to go down or to come down.
Many times in American dialogues, sitcoms, you know, movies and in DDM, we always see this expression to go down, go down to the office, go down to the store, go down to see my mom.
Why do we say go? I'm sorry.
Why do we say down?
Can we say up? Can we say over?
No. If an American says go down, they do mean down and down has three possible meanings.
The first meaning of down is downtown, the center of town.
So I'm going down to work.
Where do most people work?
What's the image of where most people work?
Downtown in a big office building.
So I'm going down to my office.
That means you're going downtown.
The other meaning of down is physically down.
For example, if you live on the 10th floor, but you need to go to the convenience store on the first floor, you could say, I'm going down to the store.
And it literally means down 10 floors, 10 stories to the ground level.
Okay, so physically downward.
And the other meaning of down is to the south.
So I'm going down to visit my parents.
That almost certainly means my parents live south of me.
So if I live in Seattle, in America, which is in the state of Washington, and my parents live in Los Angeles, if I go to visit them, I need to travel south.
So I would say, I'm going down to see my parents.
And everybody would say, where?
And if I said someplace north, then you mean up.
And yes, that's right, everybody.
Up means north, but up can have other meanings too.
East, west, we say over.
I'm going over to my parents.
Yes, so this up, down, and over does have specific meanings.
Today we're focusing on down to go down.
I'm going down to my office.
I'm going down to the store.
I'm going down to visit my parents.
They all have different meanings.
Okay, so check out the dialogue.
Are you going down to the store today?
I went down yesterday.
Please, I need some more beer.
Go get it yourself.
What a lazy guy. If you need beer, go down to the store and buy your own beer.
Why are you asking your wife?
Yes, that was his wife.
That's a woman. Yeah, it was.
Okay, so once again, to go down.
Down has three meanings.
Downtown or in a southern direction or physically downward, down a ladder, down the elevator, down the stairs.
Do you understand? Now I want you guys to create your own examples.
Give me a sample of when you went down to some place.
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I'm going down to where?
All right, so remember, go down, come down.
