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- Razi7272
June 2021
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![]() | AussieInBgJune 2021 ”at home”, when used literally, talks about the being at the physical position where you live. ”in the home” - the emphasis here is on the activities, other actions and so on at the place which someone normally lives. The emphasis is not whether this is a flat, apartment, house and so on - but on this place being the residence of the person and the associated thing happening there. So, ”I’m at home most nights” = ”My physical position most nights is the place where I live”. It doesn’t matter whether it is a flat or house - the important thing is my location - where I normally live. and ”Many people celebrate Christmas in the home” = The activity of ”celebrating Christmas” is performed where many people normally live”. or ”The police arrested a criminal in the home of Jim Smith.” = ”The police performed the activity of arresting a criminal where Jim Smith normally lives.” It’s not important that Jim Smith owns/rents a house or flat, but the arrest happened where Jim Smith lives usually. So, ”Items in the home” is asking about the items you have at home that you use there / perform activities with. ”where you keep things at home” - the physical location of different things where you live. |
Razi7272June 2021 Thank you so much . It was completely clear .
![]() | 1lyassJune 2021 That would probably help in understanding both. I found this on the net. They express different things: ”at home” it more general and usual. E.g. ”I’m at home.”; ”I left my bag at home.”. ”in the home” means more of like inside the house. E.g. ”I left my keys in the home” (and you are locked out now; at home however would mean that you went somewhere and forgot them at home); ”Where have you been? We waited in the garden for like hours!” - ”I was in the home all the time.”. I myself would almost always prefer ”inside the house / flat” to ”in the home”. |
AussieInBgJune 2021 The person who posted that message you copy-pasted from doesn’t really understand what the phrase ”in the home” means in standard English.
I sincerely hope that the writer was not a native speaker of English... Still, sometimes native speakers and particularly those who speak unusual dialects will write ”unusual” things.
In general, I’ve also seen a lot of rubbish written by non-native speakers trying to promote themselves for whatever reasons as ”language experts” on language forums.
it’s a very good idea not to just take the first item of a search on Google when you are looking for the meaning of something...
![]() | ManuelrayJuly 2021 At home can be used when answering questions far from home, In the home can be used when answering questions near or surrounding of the home |