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Faisalkhan Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Which one is the right sentence?

Sorry, I was not home.
Sorry, I was not at home.
  

Top answer

Hi, Both are OK. #1s a bit more idiomatic. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, Both are OK.
  • #1s a bit more idiomatic.
  • Clive
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Hi,

Both are OK.
#1s a bit more idiomatic.

Clive
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Sir Humphrey Appleby would avoid I was not home as he and other British aristocrats consider omitting the preposition far too informal for educated speakers.
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Hi,
Cool BreezeSir Humphrey Appleby would avoid I was not home as he and other British aristocrats consider omitting the preposition far too informal for educated speakers.
No, I was not home is not an informal sentence. You may think that omitting the preposition makes the sentence

sound less formal, but actually it is not so. In that sentence,
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RegardsNo, I was not home is not an informal sentence.
I didn't say it was. I said Sir Humphrey Appleby would have considered it informal. We never heard him say "I was not home".

CB
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