Considering the use of this verb meaning in : 'manage to arrive' . How and when do I use the preposition 'to' ?
Please take a look at the following sentences and explain which one makes sense in both examples to mean in the mentioned definition.
Sorry, I can't make it home for dinner tonight, I've got my hands full with a bunch of work.
Sorry, I can't make it to home for dinner tonight, I've got my hands full with a bunch of work.
Here is another one :
There was heavy traffic but I finally made it to work.
There was heavy traffic but I finally made it work.
Best Answer
This means you are unable to reach this destination. Home could refer to the building, or the area where you live; e.g., village, city, country. When used as an adverb of place, home requires no preposition
An Australian holidaymaker: I can't wait to get back home (home = Melbourne, Australia)
In this sentence we have to identify what home might be referring to. It could be short for home base (think of a baseball player running to home base) or the home plate
This means the speaker managed to arrive at his or her workplace despite the traffic. Work and workplace are nouns, and the preposition to is used to express motion or a direction toward a point or thing.
This sentence is grammatical but it has a completely different meaning. It means that the speaker managed to make something work i.e function despite the heavy traffic. In other words, the speaker repaired something that was broken or not functioning properly. And in the sentence, work is used a verb