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Stephenlearner Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Come to, follow to?
Hi,
Are the following sentences correct grammatically?
Boy, come to where there is sunshine; it is cold in the shade.
The hunter follows to where the snowman stands.
Should I delete the to in the above sentences, like come home, not come to home?
Thanks
Are the following sentences correct grammatically?
Boy, come to where there is sunshine; it is cold in the shade.
The hunter follows to where the snowman stands.
Should I delete the to in the above sentences, like come home, not come to home?
Thanks
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No. "Come home" is the exception, not the rule - it is "come to work", "come to the library", "come to the restaurant", etc.
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- "Come home" is the exception, not the rule - it is "come to work", "come to the library", "come to the restaurant", etc.
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No. "Come home" is the exception, not the rule - it is "come to work", "come to the library", "come to the restaurant", etc.
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Home is adverb, and where is also adverb. That is why I think to should be deleted. I know you are right. I just wonder why the rule could not be applied to the adverb where.
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Home is adverb -- In spite of some dictionary entries, I do not think this is so. A better interpretation is CSnyder's, making 'go home' idiomatic, with 'home' a noun and the preposition 'to' idiomatically omitted. To any native speaker, 'home' is a location, not a mode of action. I went home, I went to school, I went to the shop—these all carry the same semantic structure.
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