[Grammar] go bed/go to bed

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rock-onn

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A mother gives a command to her kid to go to sleep since it is time to sleep.

Go bed.
Go to bed.

I guess, 'Go bed' is the right one.
 

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A mother can command her child to go to bed, but can only encourage the child to go to sleep — with a story, a lullaby, soothing words etc.
 

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If the child is too old to need a lullaby or a bedtime story, and is in a room other than his/her bedroom at the appointed bedtime, the parent (not just the mother) would say "Go to bed" or "It's time to go to bed".
 

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I do hear to dropped in the UK with some younger speakers in some phrases - go toilet - but it's not standard by any means yet.
 

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I do hear to dropped in the UK with some younger speakers in some phrases - go toilet - but it's not standard by any means yet.

Speech is always in a chaning process, but this process is really not a fine one. Sounds even weird to me as a non native.
 
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