Go/Get through.

[Ashraful Haque]

I know it's a questions that gets asked online very often. I've read a few posts about it but they didn't answer my questions.

Go through- I know it has several meanings like 'go through a chapter/article,' 'go through difficult times' etc. Here I just want to know about how to use it for roads/ways. Please let me know if I used them correctly.
- We went to the airport through a different route.
- It'll be quicker if we go through this alleyway.
- A: Excuse me, where is the toilet. B: Just go through that door over there and keep walk straight, it'll be on your left.

Get through- I don't know if this has any meanings other than 'deal with a difficult situation,' if there is please let me know. Please let me know if my sentences are correct.
- I don't know how we got through that mission. (video game)
- We will get through this pandemic sooner or later.
- You will get through this, trust me. (talking to a cancer patience that he will survive.)

 

[jutfrank]

No. Yes. Yes.

No, you can also use it literally. I tried to burgle your house but I couldn't get through the window.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

 

[Ashraful Haque]

No. Yes. Yes.

No, you can also use it literally. I tried to burgle your house but I couldn't get through the window.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Wow! I should've numbered them :-?.
Please let me know if this is what you meant.

Incorrect- We went to the airport through a different route.
Correct- It'll be quicker if we go through this alleyway.
Correct - A: Excuse me, where is the toilet. B: Just go through that door over there and keep walk straight, it'll be on your left.


Correct- I don't know how we got through that mission. (video game)
Correct- We will get through this pandemic sooner or later.
Correct- You will get through this, trust me. (talking to a cancer patience that he will survive.)

Can you please tell me why it's incorrect given that it is what you meant?

 

[Rover_KE]

We go from A to B by – not through –a route.

 

[jutfrank]

Wow! I should've numbered them :-?.

Yes.

Can you please tell me why it's incorrect given that it is what you meant?

Only the first is incorrect. You don't go 'through a route'. You could say We took a different route to the airport.

What is what I meant?

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[Ashraful Haque]

We go from A to B by – not through –a route.

What's the difference between 'by' and 'through' here? I mean why is 'through' wrong here if 'go through an alleyway' is correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

Because an alleyway is something that has a beginning and an end - it is a defined length of road/land that can be pointed to on a map and it connects A and B. An alleyway is usually quite narrow and has walls or hedges on either side, so it actually feels as if you are going "through" something. A route is a collection of directions, roads, streets (or similar).

 

[Tarheel]

Ashraful, please note that it's cancer patient.

 

[Ashraful Haque]

Because an alleyway is something that has a beginning and an end - it is a defined length of road/land that can be pointed to on a map and it connects A and B. An alleyway is usually quite narrow and has walls or hedges on either side, so it actually feels as if you are going "through" something. A route is a collection of directions, roads, streets (or similar).

I see. So it has to be 'through' something.' I guess we can also say 'go through the corridor?'

Should I say "We went to the airport by a different route?"

 

[GoesStation]

I see. So it has to be 'through' something.' I guess we can also say 'go through the corridor?'

Should I say "We went to the airport by a different route?"

Yes and yes.

 

[emsr2d2]

BrE usually uses "go along/down/up a corridor".

 

[jutfrank]

I guess we can also say 'go through the corridor?'

Possibly, but we'd need the right context to use that particular preposition there.

The school where I work is a something of a maze, where people often have trouble finding their way. I'm often telling people how to navigate around the building. I'll say things like:

Go through the student lounge, down the stairs and through the door on your left.
If you go through the garden to Room 1.4 and wait there, I'll be with you shortly.
You can go through my office if you like.

In each case, I'm imagining the places as three-dimensional spaces which must be covered en route to a final destination. We have a similar conception of enclosed 3D space when we say things like:

You can't go through Israel to get to Lebanon.
We'll take the ringroad to avoid going through the city centre.

 

[GoesStation]

A few years ago, I was heading for Cincinnati, Ohio with a visitor from Israel when I realized we'd be going right past this place. I took a quick detour and we went through Lebanon (Ohio) rather than following the bypass around the city. We stopped downtown so he could take a picture and prove to his friends that he'd been in Lebanon.

 

[jutfrank]

So you can't go through Israel to get to Lebanon but you can go through Lebanon with an Israeli.