on his flight home

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Mr Cameron told reporters on his flight home on Monday from summits of the Group of Eight rich nations and the Group of 20 in Canada.
Is “home” in the sentence above an adjective?
Can I use “flight to home” instead of “flight home”?

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I think “home” is an adverb there.

“flight to home” is not right.

3

Thank you!

I thought that but I don’t know what part the adverb refer to. Does the adverb refer to the sentence?

This is a definition of home in my dictionary:
home: adverb

  1. to the place where you live:
    How was the journey home?
    Therefore, I think “to” in “flight to home” is wrong because the meaning of “home” already contains “to”, right?
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Hmm, I suppose you could consider “flight home” an abbreviation of “flight that took him home” or something, or else you could allow that in this case the adverb can directly modify the noun.

learnenglish.de/grammar/adverbtext.htm says “Adverbs can modify nouns to indicate time or place” and gives the example “The concert tomorrow” which seems broadly analogous to me.

macmillandictionary.com/dict … an/home_40 also gives “I was sick on the plane home” as an example of adverbial “home”.

In the adverbial use of “home”, yes.

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Thanks a lot, Dozy!
The link is very useful and complete. I didn’t know that “Adverbs can modify nouns”, “Adverbs can modify noun phrases” and “Adverbs can modify determiners, numerals and pronouns”.
It also clears up my doubt in the thread:www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic124477.html

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Incidentally, I think that “shipments overseas” in your other recent thread is also analogous to “flight home”.