Go abroad means to travel or move to another country. It works both for a short holiday trip and for moving away to study or work, and you don't have to name the country.
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go abroad; go abroad to + verb / for + noun; live/study/work abroad; from abroad
- Many students go abroad for a year to improve their language skills.
- We couldn't afford to go abroad this summer, so we rented a cottage in the countryside.
- My company sends engineers abroad for training twice a year.
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First versionNext year I want to go to abroad to study.
RevisionNext year I want to go abroad to study.
Abroad already means to another country, just as home means to your home. So it needs no preposition: go abroad, like go home. The to often slips in by analogy with go to Spain.
One preposition does go before abroad: from abroad, meaning from another country. A third of the students on our course are from abroad. Besides go, abroad often goes with live, study and work: She has worked abroad for ten years.
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She has never left her home country, but she dreams of ___ one day.
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going abroad — After dreams of you need the -ing form, and abroad follows without a preposition: going abroad. Going to abroad is a mistake, because to isn't used before abroad.
Write about a trip abroad that you are planning or have already made: say where you went or are going, and why.
Last year I went abroad for the first time: I flew to Turkey to visit my sister.
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