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Why do we use COME n GO in this sentence? I was going in to hug him but he came in to punch me. I was going to hug him but he came to punch me. I can't get my head around the usage of "go in“ and "come in" here. How about this sentence without IN? Any subtle difference between these two sentences?

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I think you are actually asking about "in"? It refers to "into the embrace". That's implied by the word "hug".
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going is used here to describe the future rather than/or perhaps as well as a physical movement of the author came is used here to describe the movement of the puncher. Using Came here is a little odd but perfectly ok. "n" however probably means "and" if you want to use 'n' or an' in this way you need to punctuate. Given that AND is only 3 letters long I'm not sure you benefit by reducing it, unlike say 'phone for telephone.
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Hi Nobody! The verb "To come" is used from the point of view of the speaker to express the movement from another place to where the speaker is. if you give to a person the order "Come (here)!" , that order means "Move from where you are to where I am." if you give the order "Go (there)", that order means "Move from where you are now to another place (but not to where I am now)" So the verb "To go" means moving to a place where the speaker is not placed. I hope it helps. ^_^
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In my opinion, ' be going to' is near future tense, we use 'be going to' to describe something will happen soon and " come" is just a saying that means you want to do that but you don't know when it happens. Maybe my answer is not completely correct, I hope someone will fix it for me :)

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