talking about traffic lights

[curiousmarcus]

Me: That's a traffic light. Red means stop, yellow means slow down, and green means go.

Son: It's green now! We can go!

Me: Yes, it's green. But there's a car in front of us. If we go, we'll hit it. So we can't go.

Son: There's no more car!

Me: Very good. Now, we can go.

The underlined phrases sound off to me. All those go's make it awkward. Any way to phrase them better?

 

[Tarheel]

You could say:

Now we can move.

(I'm not saying that's better.)

 

[Barb_D]

Sounds fine to me.
Clearly the son is very young if he doesn't understand a traffic light or that going when there is a large object in front of you is a bad idea, so using repetitive vocabulary is natural.

 

[emsr2d2]

The only unnatural part is your son's "There's no more car!" That's not grammatical. Say "The car has gone" or "The car isn't there anymore".

 

[GoesStation]

Sounds fine to me.
Clearly the son is very young if he doesn't understand a traffic light or that going when there is a large object in front of you is a bad idea, so using repetitive vocabulary is natural.

My son was impatient to get somewhere one day when we encountered stopped traffic in a very unusual place. He begged me to go despite the presence of a row of cars ahead. Our dialog was remarkably similar to the one in post 1.