Get home means to arrive home after being somewhere else. Get here means 'reach a place', so the phrase describes the moment you arrive: What time did you get home? You'll also hear get someone home, meaning to take someone home: I'll get you home.
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get home (no to); get home + from + work/school; get + someone + home; get to + the station/work
- What time did you get home after the party last night?
- I usually get home from work at about seven and cook dinner.
- It's late, so I'll call a taxi to get you home safely.
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First versionI got to home at midnight because the trains were delayed.
RevisionI got home at midnight because the trains were delayed.
After verbs of movement, home works like here or there and needs no preposition: get home, go home, come home. Because we say get to work and go to school, it's tempting to put to before home as well, which gives get to home and go to home. Both are wrong. Compare: get to the station, but get home.
Go home means to leave for home: It's late, let's go home. Get home means to arrive there: We got home at ten. So to ask when someone arrived, say What time did you get home? A question with go home asks when they left for home.
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get home — Home needs no preposition, so get home. People don't say get to home, although other places do need to: get to the office.
Describe a typical evening after work or classes: what time you get home and how you travel.
On weekdays I get home at about half past six, usually by tram.
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