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Perfect Stranger Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

home field? home ground?

Dear All,

What do we say if a basketball team plays against a visiting team?

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They are the home team.

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  • They are the home team.
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They are the home team.
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Basketball refers to the "home court."
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Grammar GeekBasketball refers to the "home court."
Sports nut I am not. What about football and baseball (et al.)?
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Thanks,

Can we say:
  1. The team played home.
  2. The team played on their home ground.
  3. The team played at home.


Do these sentence sound natural to you?
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For US sports, only the third one or "It was a home game." The opposite is an "away game."
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