Go well means to be successful or turn out as you hoped. You use it about meetings, interviews, trips and other events: The interview went well. With the preposition with, it has a second meaning, to look or taste good together: Red wine goes well with cheese.
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meeting/exam/trip + go well; hope it goes well; everything went well; go well with + food/clothes
- The meeting with the new client went well, and we signed the contract the next day.
- I hope your trip to Scotland goes well; send us some photos!
- This grey jacket goes well with dark jeans and white trainers.
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First versionThe job interview passed well, and they invited me for a second meeting.
RevisionThe job interview went well, and they invited me for a second meeting.
Passed can seem like the right verb for how an event turned out, but pass means other things. About time, it means to go by: The weeks passed quickly. About an exam, it means to succeed in it: pass an exam. To say how an event went, English uses go: go well, go badly. So passed was changed to went.
Go well is about an event, and do well is about a person who succeeds at something: The exam went well describes the exam, while I did well in the exam means I got a good result. You can't say I went well about yourself.
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My first week at the new job was great: everything ___, and my manager seemed happy with my work.
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went well — Everything here means the tasks and events of the first week, and for how events turn out you use go well. Do well is about a person or a company that succeeds: She did well in the interview. People don't say everything did well.
Write about a recent event at work or in your studies that went well. Say what it was and why you think it was a success.
My first presentation to the whole team went well because I had practised it three times the night before.
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