Direction / Goal Place
Where to or which way?
Signification
The endpoint or direction of movement, change, attention, transfer, or intention.
Comment le repérer
Look for where something is going or directed.
Exemples
to|toward|home|up|down|away
go to school|walk into the room|look at me
They went to the station.
Visual guide
MOVER ──go/look/send──▶ GOAL They went to the station. Question: where to / which way? Goal = endpoint or target
Location vs Goal: at school = place of being to school = place aimed at room → into room = boundary crossed Forms: to, -ALL, postposition, prefix, particle, verb choice
Vue par langue
Dans votre langue maternelle
Direction commonly uses à, vers, chez, dans, and the pronoun y for previously known places.
Ils vont à la gare.
They go to the station.
Dans votre langue d’apprentissage
En anglais, les buts de déplacement se marquent le plus souvent par des prépositions, des particules ou des adverbes de direction.
He went to school.
to school = destination / but du déplacement
Les apprenants peuvent confondre to, into, onto, toward et les expressions sans préposition comme go home.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.