I know the difference between arrive at and arrive in, but where can I use arrive to?
A car arrived to the gate.
Should I use arrived at?
Learn English – use “arrive to”
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I know the difference between arrive at and arrive in, but where can I use arrive to?
A car arrived to the gate.
Should I use arrived at?
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Arrive to is rare in present-day English, and I advise you to avoid it; but it was at one time more common. Robert Baker, Remarks on the English Language, in the Manner of Those of Vaugelas on the French; Being a Detection of Many Improper Expressions Used in Conversation, and of Many Others to Be Found in Authors, 2nd Ed. 1779, not only concedes its propriety in figurative uses but acknowledges, even as he scorns the use, that “people of education” employ it: