Grammar – Correct Usage of “I Am Home”

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What is the reason behind some words not having some prepositions and are assumed?

For example:

I am home

is a perfectly valid sentence meaning, one has reached home, but if someone completely noob to English come across this sentence, they will probably think:

"I am home", how can a person be a home?

Also, see these sentences:

I go home

Please come here

Go there and purchase your tickets

As you can see, some words like here, there, home don't accept "to" before them.

I go to home

is wrong I suppose.

So, why do certain words don't take "to" infinitive or prepositions before them?

Best Answer

You should notice that in all the sentences you wrote and assumed that the preposition is missing, the prepositions are not missing. This is in accordance with the grammar rule. You see before home, here, there, prepositions are missing, because home, here and there are adverbs. And therefore we don't need a preposition before an adverb.

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Hope this helps.