Consider the following:
I'll probably stay at home.
I'll probably stay home.
Is the second sentence still grammatically correct? Is there any difference at all?
grammaticality
Consider the following:
I'll probably stay at home.
I'll probably stay home.
Is the second sentence still grammatically correct? Is there any difference at all?
Best Answer
Both are correct. There are instances where they mean the same thing and some instances where they don't.
If you were telling someone that you didn't intend to go out tonight, you could use either.
However, if someone were asking where you were staying, where the answer might be "a hotel" or "a friend's house", you would definitely say "at home".
(Note that if you did say the struck-through version, that would tend to imply that you weren't going to go to the conference at all.)
However, that "home" is uncommon in that it also functions as an adverb. You can never leave the preposition out with other similar nouns. For example, this is clearly wrong:
In that case, you have to create an adverbial prepositional phrase: