Go shopping vs for shopping [closed]
Yesterday I was teaching my student about the verb shop. I told him that we use "go" with "shop" to mean to go and buy things. e. g.
1) You are going shopping.
2) You were going shopping.
3) You go shopping.
4) You went shopping yesterday.
Every thing was going well until I formed a question in this manner:
"Are you going to New York (insert any place here) to go shopping?"
I felt this sentence to be wrong. Not grammatically but this is not how people ask. As far I know, this is how such question should be formed
" Are you going to New York for shopping"
But again, I could be wrong.
Please tell me which one is correct and is used by the natives.
Are you going to New York to go shopping? is grammatical, but the combination of going, go and shopping is not particularly felicitous. A more concise version is Are you going to New York to shop?
The grammaticality of Are you going to New York for shopping is questionable. You can make it grammatical by including the definite article:
- Are you going to New York for the shopping?
But this slightly changes the meaning to something like:
- Are going to New York because the shopping there is so good.
See, for example, the following headlines:
Come for the Shopping, Stay for the Food
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/travel/shopping-in-store-restaurants.html
Forget turkey- tourists come to Vegas for the shopping
https://news3lv.com/news/local/forget-turkey-tourists-come-to-vegas-for-the-shopping