Going home, or to home

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Guest  #11704  Wed, 29 Oct 03 01:00 PM
Why do we say 'I'm going home' but not 'I'm going to home' ?
Can anybody help with this please?
  
maj  #11716  Wed, 29 Oct 03 04:40 PM
"Go home" never has a preposition as compared "to be at home". However, it shouldn't be forgotten that "go to" is used in many other instances when movement is implied: go to the doctor's, go to the supermarket, go to the cinema, go to meet him at the airport and so on. I would say "go home" is the exception to the rule.
  
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