Using go to school and go to the school

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Please teachers I need to know what the difference between "go to school" and "go to the school" and also hospital could replace school

I need it grammatical and today if possible

Thank you beforehand!
 
You go to school if you are a pupil and to hospital if you are sick.

If you go to a particular building for whatever reason, you go to the school or to the hosptal.

My son goes to school in Portsmouth. I go to the school once a term to talk to his teachers about his progress.
 
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The "hospital" one is different in the US. Whether you are a patient, a visitor, or salesperson, you go to the hospital or you are in the hospital.

However, "church" works like school. Go to church = go there to worship. Go to the church = go to the building.
 
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The "hospital" one is different in the US. Whether you are a patient, a visitor, or salesperson, you go to the hospital or you are in the hospital.

However, "church" works like school. Go to church = go there to worship. Go to the church = go to the building.

Please, can you give me a list of words that we can use in these cases?
 
Please, can you give me a list of words that we can use in these cases?
I can think of these in BrE:
bed, chapel, class, college, jail, prison, sea, school, town, university, work.
 
I can think of these in BrE:
bed, chapel, class, college, jail, prison, sea, school, town, university, work.

I don't think "got to the work" is a sentence any American would ever say.
 
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I don't think "got to the work" is a sentence any American would ever say.
Nor would any speaker of BrE. I shouldn't have included 'work' in that list. :oops:
 
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