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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Why not "go to home"?

Hello everyone, I have a question. Why we say "go to church, to school, to library, to garden" but we say "go home"? I cannot understand this. And yes, I was looking for the answer on the internet and the only answer I found was "it's just how it is".

Thanks for your answers!
  

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Hi, That's the answer! Some of the ways we say things have no deep, logical explanation. Is nothing that you say in your native language "It's just how it is"?

— Clive

  • Hi, That's the answer!
  • Some of the ways we say things have no deep, logical explanation.
  • Is nothing that you say in your native language "It's just how it is"?
  • Actually, we say 'go to church, go to school'.
  • but we don't say 'go to library, go to garden'.
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Hi,

That's the answer!Emotion: stick out tongue

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'Home' is used as an adverb here.

It's like saying 'I'm going out' or 'We're going away'.

Rover
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I learned a list of places (adverbs of location) that don't use "to" in front of them:

underground, abroad, here, there, anywhere, downstairs, upstairs, inside, outside, somewhere. I hope I remembered them all.
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