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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Question about article
Why is the article not required in the first and required in the second sentence?
She ran away from home.
She ran away from 'the' house.
Is that just how English works sometimes, maybe?
She ran away from home.
She ran away from 'the' house.
Is that just how English works sometimes, maybe?
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Anonymous Why is the article not required in the first and required in the second sentence? 'House', like most nouns, requires the article, but 'home' idiomatically does not. She ran away from the house.
- Anonymous Why is the article not required in the first and required in the second sentence?
- 'House', like most nouns, requires the article, but 'home' idiomatically does not.
- She ran away from the house.
- She ran away from the river.
- She is at home.
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AnonymousWhy is the article not required in the first and required in the second sentence?'House', like most nouns, requires the article, but 'home' idiomatically does not.
She ran away from the house.
She ran away from the river.
She is at home.
She is at the store.
She is at the lake.
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Mister Micawber AnonymousWhy is the article not required in the first and required in the second sentence?'House', like most nouns, requires the article, but 'home' idiomatically does not.She ran away from the house.She ran away from the river. She is at home.She is at the store.She is at the lake.She is in the house. She went home at 8 PM.She went to her house at 8 PM.
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Mister Micawber Mister Micawber 'home' idiomatically does not.Got it. I would like to know if the last part of my last sentence written correctly, "... Exception nouns"?
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Mister MicawberI suggest 'exceptional'.Thanks. That sounds much better.
Would this sentence be correct also: "Is 'home' one of those nouns that are an exception?"
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