Posted by
Janet Goodrich on Monday, July 20, 2009 12:00:00 AM
To Say He Or She "Went Missing" Is Grammatically Irresponsible.
Went is the past tense of the verb go.
No one can "Go" missing.
To depart: he went, she went or they went.
To lose something or someone It is missing, She/He is missing.
Either they are missing or they are not.
To go implies an object. She goes to the store.
To the store is a prepositional phrase that is the direct object of 'goes.'
Went is the past tense of Go, therefore it needs an object.
Missing is an adjective --it modifies a noun.
Missing is not a place.
Missing is a condition.
One cannot "Go to a condition."
One cannot "Went to a condition.”
She/He went (somewhere) requires a noun not an adjective.
Go and went require a place, an object.
I go to..., She/He goes to..., They go to...
She/He is missing, was missing (from where).
She (He) was missed(at what time).
Nothing can went missing."
No one can went missing.
Nothing can go missing.
No one can go missing.
She/He is missing.
She/He was missing.
She/He was missed at a time.
They are missing.
They were missed.
One will be missing from my television if She/He keeps murdering the English language.©