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Why we say "go to sleep" and don't say "go sleep"? Why we say "go home" and don't say "go to home"?

Laurel
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In a sentence as "Go home" the word home functions as an adverb modifying verb go and it implies sort of sense : at or to your house or the place where you live

Please check cambridge Dictionary and this question on ELL

Mustafa
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    In this case "at or to your house or the place where you live" we must use |"to home", don't? – Mmm Sep 04 '17 at 08:32
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    What difference between "go home" and "go my home"? Why in first one "home" is adverb and in second one "home" is a noun? – Mmm Sep 04 '17 at 08:40
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    because in first is anywhere – kris Sep 04 '17 at 08:43
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    @Mohsen Mirzaei Farrokhshahi , words are mostly classified according to their functions in a sentence. Home functions as an adverb of place just like "there", "here". In a sentence like "go to house", house is a noun referring to "a building". So we use a preposition to create "adverbial phrase" so that we can modify verb. – Mustafa Sep 04 '17 at 09:12
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    In "go home", also "home" referring to "a building", what's the difference? – Mmm Sep 04 '17 at 09:58
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    @Mohsen Mirzaei Farrokhshahi home may sound a bit abstract It refers to "where someone lives" not "building" itself. it might be a country, a city, a village - a "place" you live in – Mustafa Sep 04 '17 at 10:30
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    In this case"My father wants to know when you are coming home." , home means house, not a country , a city , a village , why don't it use "to home"? – Mmm Sep 04 '17 at 10:46
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    @Mohsen Mirzaei Farrokhshahi Home is not a "building". If intended meaning is "building" you need to use "house" not "home" – Mustafa Sep 04 '17 at 10:59
  • ecuse me Mustafa, go to school , why isn't school an adverb? school is place for education. that is mind such as "home" and we must say "go school". another question is : in that sentence where place "home" refer to? – Mmm Sep 04 '17 at 11:02
  • @Mohsen Mirzaei Farrokhshahi , vocabulary is created arbitrarily by native users of a language, so we do not have a right to ask why this word is adverb or other is noun. – Mustafa Sep 04 '17 at 13:50
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Mmm Sep 04 '17 at 15:33
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we use the noun house use "to".

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