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stay home or stay AT home?
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:49 am
by Luba
Hi, could you please help me to solve this little problem? Do you say "stay home" or "stay AT home"?... if both are there any rules?
Thank you
Luba, Slovakia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:32 am
by Metamorfose
Non native opinion here, you can use both. I wouldn't say "rules", just the way people use language will determine it.
José
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:14 am
by fluffyhamster
Off the top of my head, there seems to be little or no difference between the two in sentences such as I stayed home/I stayed at home (where the home is your one).
If however we change the context to another's home, then the use of a preposition becomes obligatory: I stayed at Tom's (place/house/home)/I stayed with Tom.
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:43 pm
by Luba
thank you...
...I was used to using only stay AT home and I got a letter from my American friend writing that his childres stay home alone. And I got confused and started searching. THANK YOU for your help.
Luba