go off

use go and then preposition off when describing the sound that an alarm mace or the explosion of a bomb so we use it with for bombs bombs go off if a person gets excited you can use go off we use go off when talking about the quality of an experience and we use go off when talking about electricity or the power for a machine most of these examples are in the past tense here is the simple form go off here's the past tense went off here's the past tense for go off my alarm went off or you can add to this and say my alarm went off late this morning or if you want to use the negative you can say my alarm didn't go off this morning my alarm didn't go off this morning in this sentence go off is past tense a bomb went off inside the building she went off about how she never gets any respect this is the past tense and we use go off when a person is excited or unhappy or concerned about something she went off on me this means that a person got very angry and told me what was making her angry the power went off or the electricity went off this is also in the past tense if a machine continues to run if you can't turn it off then you can say this machine won't go off it won't stop it won't stop running how do I make it go off how do I turn it off this machine won't go off how do I make it go off sometimes we use go off when a person goes somewhere they went off to get married they're going off on vacation they went off on vacation you

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Published: Thu May 23 2019