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Forego vs. Forgo
Forego
/fɔːˈɡəʊ/Examples:
She decided to forego dessert to stay on her diet.Students may forego attending in-person classes this week.The team chose to forego a lengthy meeting and send an email instead.
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Forgo
/fɔːˈɡəʊ/Examples:
She had to forgo chocolate during her diet.He chose to forgo the company car to reduce costs.They decided to forgo their annual holiday trip.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Forego often refers to things that come before in time, like a prelude to a story.
- Forgo means to do without or abstain from something.
- Think of forego with the e as in before, which gives hints of something preceding.
- Forgo without the e suggests an act of giving up or surrendering the e and hence something else.
- If you prefix fore- in forego, it suggests something in the front whereas forgo suggests for-GO away.
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