[Vocabulary] Come with me / go with me

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englishhobby

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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? :?:
 

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

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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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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.
 
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