"I arrived at home and found the thief had broken it" Is this sentence correct ?
This afternoon, I did my English exam and it had many such questions. One of them I had trouble with was :
Complete this sentence
"I/arrive/home/find/thief/break in.
So here what I wrote " I arrived at home and found the thief had broken in. "
Is it correct or not ?
Tks a lot.
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That is completely correct. You could also have left out the word 'at.'
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Hi Misaru!
You're nearly right: "I arrived home and found the thief had broken in. " A native speaker would say "I arrived home," not "at home". For some reason, the word "home" almost never goes with a preposition (except for when we say, "I'm at home"). For example, you say, "I'm going home," never "I'm going to home."
Anyway, I hope you went well on your test :)
Happy studying!
Matt
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Just a comment rather answer which had been given. A shorter form would be,
"I arrived home to find a thief had broken in."
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Valery is right. Without any prior context, you would say "a thief".
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Why we use the? We don't know thief as person exactly. It's correct?
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