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• Thread starter Thread starter mimi2
• Start date Start date Dec 5, 2007

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mimi2

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vietnam vietnamese Hi, "If all goes to plan, I’ll study medicine." Could I say like that or do I have to add “according to”? “If all goes according to plan, I will study medicine.” Thanks.

bibliolept

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Northern California AE, Español Either way is fine; "goes according to plan" is more common, but "goes to plan" is also idiomatic. M

mimi2

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vietnam vietnamese Thank you, bibliolept. D

Dimcl

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British Columbia, Canada Canadian English

bibliolept said: Either way is fine; "goes according to plan" is more common, but "goes to plan" is also idiomatic. Click to expand...

Interesting. I've never heard "goes to plan" before. It may well be idiomatic in some localities but I wouldn't use it, Mimi, simply because it doesn't really make sense, grammatically.

bibliolept

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Northern California AE, Español The moderately specific phrase "if all goes to plan" yields 153,000 hits on Google--over 20,000 in UK pages. I add this comment to show that it is not a strictly -US idiom. I can only say that I've heard and read it numerous times. I cannot defend it in terms of "grammatical sense/sensibility/sensitivity," I admit. It may be accurate to say that it may not be suitable for more formal context. B

bolzano217

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Reading, UK Russian

bibliolept said: The moderately specific phrase "if all goes to plan" yields 153,000 hits on Google--over 20,000 in UK pages. I add this comment to show that it is not a strictly -US idiom. I can only say that I've heard and read it numerous times. I cannot defend it in terms of "grammatical sense/sensibility/sensitivity," I admit. It may be accurate to say that it may not be suitable for more formal context. Click to expand...

Yes, "to go to plan" seems to be fairly popular among British politicians, and can be heard on British TV and seen in British newspapers quite often.

Alexander Demidov

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Russian go to plan (third-person singular simple present goes to plan, present participle going to plan, simple past went to plan, past participle gone to plan) 1. To go according to plan. Wiktionary You must log in or register to reply here. Share: Bluesky LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Share Link

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