WHICH WORD?

to travel / trip / to go

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UPDATED:  DEC 2021

• PROBLEM:
  
  ​Saying "travel" when you should say "trip" or "go".
  
  
• travel = verb or adjective
  
  
• trip = noun

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to travel

EXAMPLES:

1. I travel a lot due to my work.
   
   
2. Traveling today is less enjoyable that 20 years ago.
   
   
3. When I travel, I always take my laptop.
   
   
4. I traveled all over Europe last year.
   
   
5. I have traveled around the World and have never missed a flight.
   
   
6. Did you travel a lot when you worked for Microsoft?
   
   
7. Traveling to the US is difficult now due to the pandemic.
   
   
8. Air travel has gotten cheaper over the years.

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• gotten < - click for grammar

 a/the trip

EXAMPLES:

1. How was your trip to London?
   
   
2. On my next trip to New York, I'm going Business Class.
   
   
3. On my last trip to Singapore, I got really sick.
   
   
4. I went to Switzerland last year and had a great time.  
   
   
5. You are stressed out.  You need to take nice, long trip.
   
   
6. I took a trip by car through Italy, Switzerland and Germany last year.
   
   

• trip + to + place + in + time 
  
  
• (My trip to Rio in March was great).

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DICTIONARY-TRAVEL

DICTIONARY-TRIP

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to miss / to lose

WHICH WORD?

ESL LIBRARY

NOTE:  to go
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• In normal,  American English conversational, we use the verb "to go" instead of travel.
  ​
• I go to Rio every two weeks on business.  
  ​("I travel to Rio every two weeks." isn't incorrect, and not normally used.)
  
  
• When I go to Los Angeles, I always stay in Santa Monica.
  
  
• Do you go to China often?    
  Yes, at least four times a year.
  
  

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