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 #2 (permalink) Thu Dec 20, 2007 13:50 pm usage of "go through with" |
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Hi Alex
Yes, your sentence is fine.
The phrasal verb 'go through with' refers to doing something that you planned or promised to do.
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Dec 20, 2007 14:12 pm usage of "go through with" |
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Dec 20, 2007 15:49 pm usage of "go through with" |
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Hi LS,
Just one additional point about 'go through with' - it often indicates that there has been some reluctance before the decision to carry something out. That's also why it is also frequently used in a negative way as in: In view of all the problems we had previously with that order, I can't possibly go through with it all over again.
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Dec 20, 2007 19:31 pm usage of "go through with" |
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| Alan wrote: |
| In view of all the problems we had previously with that order, I can't possibly go through with it all over again. |
On this side of the pond, I don't think that is a very likely usage of "go through with". It seems to me that we would be more likely to say something such as "I really don't want to go through any of those problems again" (i.e. without the word 'with').
But I agree that when 'go through with' is used, a negative sense and/or a sense of reluctance or doubt is often there. 'Go through with' is often used in AmE when someone has threatened to do something. If you think about it, a threat is also a kind of promise -- a promise of something negative:
The gunman threatened to kill us. However, he didn't go through with his promise of violence, and left without firing a single shot.
In the sentence above, you might also say that 'the gunman was reluctant to carry out his threat'. |
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Dec 20, 2007 21:09 pm usage of "go through with" |
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Hi,
I agree that you wouldn't say: 'go through with problems'. For the record I referred to 'it' as the thing I can't possibly go through with again ie the decision whether or not to place the order. 'Go through' on its own suggests: 'endure/suffer/put up with' and that's an entirely different kettle of fish.
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| #7 (permalink) Thu Dec 20, 2007 22:24 pm usage of "go through with" |
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| Alan wrote: |
Hi,
I agree that you wouldn't say: 'go through with problems'. For the record I referred to 'it' as the thing I can't possibly go through with again ie the decision whether or not to place the order. |
Right, and my point was that I don't believe people are likely to talk about "going through with it again", but I can imagine people saying that they don't want to "put up with/endure/go through it again". That was my point about the usage as I know it in AmE.
| Alan wrote: |
| 'Go through' on its own suggests: 'endure/suffer/put up with' and that's an entirely different kettle of fish. |
Exactly. |
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