🔒 Closed In English, why do we say "go home" instead of "go to home"?

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In English, the word "home" can be both a noun and an adverb of place* (or location).
In this example it is being used as an adverb of place, so it does not need the preposition "to."

Note: By mentally adding the suffix "-ward" to the word, you can see how it operates as an adverb, not a noun:
e.g.,
"I'm going home(ward)."
“The wind is blowing south(ward).”
Note that this is not a rule, but just a way of looking at it.
 
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