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HSS Posted 20 years ago
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Arrive To ???

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00The following is a comment by a hotel guest. Now would the expression "arrive to" be ever used? I've never heard it.02br
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00My two friends and I stayed here for 6 nights in NOV. '05 and we had some pretty bad experiences. 01b00We arrived to the hotel02b00 at 3am after a night out and all of our key cards were cancelled and when we went to the desk we were treated as if we were criminals.02br
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0Normally, it's "arrive at" (we arrived at the hotel) or "arrive in" (we arrived in Los Angeles).0-
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10Hi,12br
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10The following is a comment by a hotel guest. Now would the expression "arrive to" be ever used? I've never heard it.12br
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10My two friends and I stayed here for 6 nights in NOV. '05 and we had some pretty bad experiences. 11b10We arrived
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0I think to show location, you only have "at" or "in" as options. "On" refers to the timing. (Except for certain expressions, like "on board" for a ship.)02br
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00Arriving "on time," the expression is "on time." And again, relates to timing. 02br
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00In any case, I can't think of a single example in which you'd say "arrived to."0-
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0 Although "arrive to V" is quite common, "arrive to N" is a rare alignment. However, I feel it could be natural in certain contexts. 02br
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00One of the cases is when "arrive to" means "happen to" or "attain to a certain stage": 02br
00 (EX) The climax arrived to the Empire during his rule. 02br
00 (EX) Their children are arrived to four year
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0As an American speaker, these both sound wrong to my ears.02br
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00(EX) The climax arrived to the Empire during his rule. 02br
00(EX) Their children are arrived to four years of age. - Actually, I'm not even sure what this means. 02br
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00However, it's very possible that in some other English-speaking country, these are fine and it's on
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0Hi Paco, sorry to **** in but02br
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00arrive to verb - yes. He arrived to plumb in the washing machine.02br
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00(EX) An answer had arrived to Holmes's telegram before we returned - yes this makes sense.02br
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00 However your examples:02br
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00The climax arrived to the Empire during his rule. 02br
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0 00Humm… As I wrote somewhere in the forum, I am puzzled at the fact that you natively English speaking people often say "it makes no sense" about sentences you can found in books written only a century ago.02br
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0Hello Paco02br
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001. An answer had arrived to Holmes's telegram before we returned.02br
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00— I think this should be taken as "An answer to Holmes's telegram had arrived before we returned", as GG says.02br
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002. ...their children are arrived to four years of age. 02br
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00— This comes from Cotton's t
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0 Hello MrP02br
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00I know "to Holms's telegram" is an extraposed phrase modifying "answer", but I gave it as one of the examples of alignment of "arrive to N" that sounds natural to me. 02br
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0Pardon me. Without weighing on the correctness, my ears also agree with the majority. They sounded 17th-century. If we speak like that today, people may look at us funny!02br
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01font00EX) The climax arrived to the Empire during his rule. 02br
00(EX) Their children are arrived to four years of age. - Actually, I'm not even sure what
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