Here: this place and movement toward it

The idea

Use here for location: work here, or direction: come here. Use there for another place: put it here, not there.

Examples

• Please sit here.
• The bus stops here.
• Can you come here?
• I work here on Mondays.
• Put the book here, not there.
• We have lived here for a year.

Watch out

Say come here or put it here; a separate to is not used in these common patterns.

Try it yourself

1. Choose the word for this place. The bus stops at this place: it stops ___. (here / there)

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   here

   Here identifies this location.

2. Choose the usual direction phrase toward the speaker. Can you ___? I am standing at this place. (come here / come to here)

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   come here

   Here gives the destination toward the speaker.

3. Choose the word for the other place. Put the book here, not at that other place: not ___. (there / here)

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   there

   There identifies the other place in the contrast.

Use it today

Describe a place where you work or study and invite someone to come here.