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okay same thing as "John was sent to hospital" and "His mother went to the hospital to visit him last week". Let's take this.


- John was sent to hospital. - He was not doing anything there
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- His mother went to the hospital to visit him last week. - His mother

WAS doing something in the hospital which is "visiting"

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Okay so here, when we are talking about "prisons", "hospitals" or
whatever:

- Visiting = doing something usually in that place, that's why we use the something

- Hospital because of injuries = not doing something "usually" in thatplace (Can be referred to "he didn't do that voluntarily" in this case)

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In British (my teacher told me 3 years ago), when you are going
to the hospital, you will USUALLY do the "visit". You don't usually
go there because of injuries.
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I can't explain why, but that's the rules. However I haven't seen a
sentence that will use "the hospital" or "the prison" or whatever
it is when the person is being sent to there.

So I hope this would be useful for you :D

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