"go home straight" or "go straight home"

Question

Which one of the following is the proper usage below?

"go home straight"

or

"go straight home"?

thanks.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:38

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Go home or straight home, is the correct usage of the phrase & home in "go home" is an adverb of place.

Examples:

Listen my son! Don't loiter after class, and go straight home.

Do you go home straight when you get off work early?

We do not use a preposition (a word such as 'at' or 'to') before home when it is an adverb:

I travel home by bus (NOT- I travel to/at home by bus).

He returned home (NOT- He returned to home).

References:

See also- close to home a) if a remark or criticism is close to home, it makes you feel uncomfortable because it is likely to be true:

His comments struck unpleasantly close to home.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:38

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answered Oct 14 '14 at 18:34

weakphoneme

Home is a preposition not an adverb! That's why you can use straight with it! – Araucaria - Him Oct 14 '14 at 19:05
I somewhat agree..when "home" is acting as an adv.implying direction, we don't need a preposition. – Misti Oct 14 '14 at 19:18
Although lots of people do still cal it an adverb .... :( – Araucaria - Him Oct 14 '14 at 19:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '14 at 19:30

Straight is a specialized adverb that can pre-modify prepositions.

It can't pre-modify adverbs:

Home is usually a preposition in English (- although there is a noun home too). In the Original Poster's example we need:

Straight always pre-modifies prepositions. It must therefore occur before home.

[Now We could say:

But here straight would be an adjective, it would be describing the subject of the verb you. It has the same structure as:

The adjective straight has several meanings, but one of them is sober or not drunk. So go home straight might be understood as:

On the other hand, "go home straight away" is common and perfectly acceptable. — szarka, Oct 15 '14 at 02:35
@szarka That's because away is also a preposition! (but a temporal one, not a locative one). So there's two prepositions there home and away. The second one, namely away, is pre-modified by straight :) — Araucaria - Him, Oct 15 '14 at 14:38

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 14 '14 at 17:13

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I suppose either could be correct depending on the context, but the more common usage would be

'go straight home'

which would generally mean to go home without deviating or delaying while en-route.

answered Oct 14 '14 at 17:13

Alo

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