Hey everybody welcome back to Let's Talk and you
are with me Meera. Well today I have got something very interesting for you all, what could it
be? What are you not going to use? Today you're going to learn when not to use the word “to”.
Isn't it the simplest lesson that you might think, that okay I know this but wait if you
think you know when not to use “to”, why don't you just stay and watch where people
exactly go wrong and where is this conclusion coming from. I actually have this tendency
whenever people say, “I am going to…” my ears pop out just to wait in here what
are they going to say. The world's most common mistake, right here, “I am going to home”
is what people say. People usually use “to” over hear but what English says is that this
is wrong having “to” when we say home is wrong. You cannot say, “I am going to
home”, but haven't you heard people say that you have, right? You have, right? I have
too. Well that's what we're going to learn today where we're not going to use “to”.
First of all “I'm going to college” and “I'm going home”, okay? “I am going
to school” ‘to school’ and “I am going abroad”, ‘flying abroad’ “I'm going
abroad” you can see that I have not used “to” over here and I have not used “to”
over here. Now I'll tell you where this confusion has begun, okay? This confusion comes from
the basic rule, which is ‘rule’, okay? That you will use to whenever you use such
nouns, ‘place nouns’, okay? Then another confusion whenever we use anything to do with
“go”, again we used “to”, agreed? That's where this whole confusion has begun,
you know and people are wondering what is with this word “to” and why are we going
so wrong with it? The thing is it's very simple, I'm going to tell you words where you will
not use “to”. What do I expect out of you? I expect you guys to remember these five
six simple words, if not I'll tell you a trick how you can remember it. Let's quickly begin
and see where you're not going to use the word “to”. As you can see these are the
rules from where the confusion has begun and now we're going to see where we are not going
to use it. This is correct, this is correct, this is correct and this is correct so don't
get confused between this. You will not use “to” when you have to say, “in”, “inside”
or “out” you will say “I am going in, ‘in’ the house.” “I am going inside
the café.” “I'm going out just to chill”, to probably meet friends, watch a game of
football or something, so you will not use “to” over here. You're only going to say
‘going’ and use all these words, okay? Now let's come to the next part, you will
not use “to” when you use, “here” and “there” “here” and “there”
‘here’, ‘there’, okay? So when it comes to these two words okay, so “I am
going here…” where here? Just here around the corner, just here somewhere. “I'm going
there, do you want to come with me?” You will not say, “I am going to there” or
“going to here” no-no-no, very basic words, very few words and easy-peasy to remember.
Moving on, you will not use “to” when you have to say you're going “underground”.
Basically any basement or a subway, right? Where you catch trains or metros, that's underground.
You will say, “I'm going underground.” “I'm going to the subway”, where? Where?
Subway but underground you will not use it. Now next up we have, can you see it? Can you
see it? Okay, now you can see it. Well you cannot use “going to” when you say, “anywhere”
or “nowhere”. For example “I am going to anywhere” just and you were randomly
chilling, doing nothing, no! You will say, “I am going anywhere I wish”, okay? “I
am going nowhere, I'm right here”, okay? “Nowhere” and “anywhere”. Let's move
on, the last words that I want you to remember, “I am going “upstairs” going upstairs,
where? In your house or in your college or in your office, just going upstairs, you're
probably in the basement, underground now you're going upstairs, not “going to”
no! Then “I am going “downstairs”, okay? I'm going downstairs okay that you can use
for only going there is no “to” over here. Now I'll tell you what, the thing is if you
actually open the dictionary right now okay, and if you see all these words, check out
these words okay, try this out you will see that the dictionary does not say that these
are “nouns”, these are what? These are “adverbs of location”, okay and that is
why you do not use “to” over here, no “to” over here. So now I hope this is
very clear as to where you're not going to use “to”. Here it's very simple, “I'm
going to college”, now these are nouns, noun but this is adverb of location. Home
is a location, abroad is a location, okay? Inside, out, outside similarly just like out
you can obviously say outside but, going outside. Here, there, underground, anywhere, nowhere,
upstairs, downstairs… simple? Have I simplified where you are not going to use “to”? There
you go take a look at this board properly and make sure just, just remember these words,
they're not many, just very few, okay? The next time when anyone is saying, home, going
home, make sure that your ears pop out and listen if they're going to say “to” or
not. “I'm going to home” no! “I'm going home”. There you go guys, I'm sure you remember
this, I'm sure this must have taught you something new that you haven't heard before and that
it has clarified all your confusion. Alright guys, I understand that this was an easy-peasy
lesson but for all those out there who have stuck till now, I know that you've got this
right. Well guys that's all for the day, well I'll see you soon in another video with another
topic this is me Meera, I'm going home, going, bye, see you.