I've found an interesting sentence and I'm trying to figure out whether it is correct or not.
The sentence is:
When we arrived the forest, it was getting darker.
As far as I know, it is not allowed to use the verb without a preposition.
So, it should be
When we arrived in the forest, it was getting darker.
shouldn't it?
Best Answer
According to the dictionary definitions, arrive is an intransitive verb. So it cannot have a direct object. Therefore:
is incorrect (forest would be a direct object here).
Is correct. But the prepositional phrase is not required, as in: