{"id":72322,"date":"2019-09-20T05:36:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72322"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:36:12","slug":"home-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/home-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home, At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At home <\/b>means \u2018in one\u2019s own place\u2019. No article is used before the expression.<\/p>\n
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  • Is anybody at home?<\/b> (NOT — at the home?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    At <\/b>is often dropped.<\/p>\n

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    • Is anybody home? <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Home<\/b> (without to) can be used as an adverb referring to direction.<\/p>\n

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      • Let us go home. <\/b> (NOT — to home.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        There is no special preposition in English to express the idea of being at somebody else\u2019s home. We often express the idea by using at<\/b> with a possessive<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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        • We spend the weekend at the Smiths\u2019. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          At home means \u2018in one\u2019s own place\u2019. No article is used before the expression. Is anybody at home? (NOT — at the home?) At is often dropped. Is anybody home? Home (without to) can...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1537,1536],"class_list":["post-72322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-at-home","tag-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72323,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322\/revisions\/72323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}