Why does it sound more natural to say:
He stood up and started walking forward.
that
He stood up and went forward
The questiion is for difference between to go and to walk. Taken an attempt to find it in a dictionary, but haven't got any success.
Best Answer
Originally, the verb "to go" meant "to walk", but it has come to mean a number of things in addition to walking.
I go to the store frequently does not necessarily mean that you walk there. You could drive there too.
I go to school can mean that you are a student.
I went home would mean only that you left and made your way back home by some means. One could not infer that you walked.
So, in situations where you want to refer specifically to walking, in order to make perfectly clear that you mean "walk", the word "walk" is simply clearer, not more natural, than "go".
How did you get home? Did you take a taxi? I walked. ("I went" would be unnatural.)
DIRECTOR TO ACTOR: when she looks up, you go to her and put your arms around her.
Perfectly natural use of "go" to mean "walk over to".
DIRECTOR TO ACTOR: What did you do when she looked up? ACTOR: I went over to her.
Natural too.