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    Default Come with me / go with me

    I'm going to visit my sister's family. Do you want to COME / GO with me?

    Does the meaning change if you use come or go?
    If I were a native speaker of English, I would never shut up.)

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    Default Re: Come with me / go with me

    In this context, they mean the same to me. I would use 'come'.

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    Default Re: Come with me / go with me

    Thanks, and in the following sentence
    Let's go together to my sister's place.
    only go is possible, isn't it?
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    Default Re: Come with me / go with me

    Quote Originally Posted by englishhobby View Post
    Thanks, and in the following sentence
    Let's go together to my sister's place.
    only go is possible, isn't it?
    Yes.
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    Default Re: Come with me / go with me

    Thank you, and I've just found in Michael Swan's Grammar that in "come with me" we have "joining a movement", so we use come.
    If I were a native speaker of English, I would never shut up.)

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