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Darcy Posted 18 years ago
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It's home to gardens??

0In the following sentence, what is the meaning of 01u00"to02u00"? and garden means an area of land with flower beds, lawns, trees doesn't it? I don't understand "01u00home to gardens02u00" 02br
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00[ It's home to a diverse population and to computer firms, universities and gardens.]0-
  

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0It's the 'home to' part you don't quite understand.02br
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00This means 'here you will find' - 'these things live/exist here' not home as in a domestic property a family/person lives in.02br
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00So wherever it is (presumably a town/area), there are gardens, universities, computer firms, and diverse people.0-
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0thanks for your reply... 0-
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0 Or:02br
00(It) 01b00hosts02b00 a diverse population, computer firms ... 0-
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0Song lyrics from Jerome Kern's Showboat evoke both senses of the word "to": 01i00Home without him ain't no home to me02i00.02br
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00Edit. Woops! There are two versions, " - - - - ain't nothin' to me." Don't know which is Hammerstein's original. (I never heard the second one.)0-

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