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This paper explores the semantic prosody of come and go which are regarded as the basic motion verbs in English. Yet while collocation and semantic prosody have recently attracted much interest from researchers studying the English language, there has been little work done on semantic prosody in domestic and the possible causes of making semantic prosody are not much suggested. In this paper, it is observed that come has positive prosody from the collocates of alive, true, clean, clear, awake, alert, etc. while go has negative prosody made of mad, crazy, ballistic, several color terms, bankrupt, dead, blind, deaf, etc. Under a cognitive perspective, it is also discussed that the three features of come and go, deixis, potential anticipation that come has, vector which refers to the directionality probably affect the consistent tendency of semantic prosody of come and go.