TRANSCRIPT OF THE ABOVE VIDEO: English Grammar Lesson: When to say 'go home' and 'come home' - Learn this simple grammar rule

Hi everyone, its Nicole here, and I'm answering another one of your questions.

This is just a really short one, but I thought it was such a great question that is quite confusing for a lot of people, so I thought I'd talk about it to make it nice and clear for all of you.

The question was What is the difference between go home and come home? Hmmm. I like that question. And you know what? The answer is a lot easier than you think.

So, first of all, when you say these words go home and come home, it all depends on where you are at the moment of speaking.

Look, if you say go home, it means that you are not at home at the moment. When you say go home, you're not at home, home is somewhere else, and you say I need to go home, or you say go home please because you are going towards your home, you are not there at that moment. Does that make sense?

Now, the opposite is the case with come home. So, if you say Come home, please, it means that at that particular moment when you say come home, you are actually at home already, and you are probably talking to someone else and telling them to come towards you, they are somewhere else, you know, they're not at home and their job is to move towards you.

So, think of it like this, go home means move towards home. Come home means move towards home, but the difference is with go home, you're not there, with come home, you're already there. Does that make it clearer?

So, you might say something like I really need to go home, I have a delivery arriving at five o'clock and I have to be there, or you might say something like Will you please go home, it's getting late and soon it's going to rain. Come home, you might say something like Can I please ask you to come home as soon as possible? Dinner will be ready in 20 minutes, or What time are you planning on coming home tonight? There you go.

So, go home come towards me and I'm at home. Did I say that wrong? Apologies! Go home means I'm not at home and I'm going towards my home, I'm moving towards my home. Come home means I'm here at home at the moment of speaking, and I'm telling someone to come towards me, to move towards me towards my home. There you go.

Hopefully I haven't overcomplicated that for you. Anyway, enjoy going home and coming home. Bye.