✔ 最佳答案
1) aware 是 adjective.
2)
「home」是一個很特別的字,我們先看看它不同的用法。
1. 首先,「at home」是一個特別的 adverbial phrase,意思是「在家」,我們不會說「at the home」。
例子:
I left my keys at home.
I stay at home.
(American speakers prefer "I stay home", see below)
2.「home」也可以直接用作 adverb。
例子:
I'm going home.
I'll be home.
I stay home.
所以,我們不會說「I'm going to home.」或「I'm going to my home.」。
3. 當「home」是一個 noun,我們通常都會是指定某人的「home」,所以,我們會用「my home」,「his home」,「their home」等等。
以上是「home」最常見的用法,所以會令我們以為「home」之前面不可以有 articles。其實,這個想法是錯誤的,當「home」作為一個普通的 noun 時,在它之前可以有 article!
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(You use "the home" or "a home" when you are talking about homes in general. ---- quoted from "Collins Cobuild English Usage", p.298)
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例子:
I want a home and children.
I had never had a home of my own.
The home I'm visiting is very comfortable.
India is the home of elephants and tigers.
不要因為少見「the home」,覺得古怪,而當它錯!
現在,讓我們討論:
They don't understand how a teenager like Vijay can confine himself to the home.
「confine to」的用法是 subject + confine + object + to + object。 「confine」之後的 preposition 必定是「to」,而且「to」之後是要跟 noun。
所以,我們不能寫
They don't understand how a teenager like Vijay can confine himself at home. (沒有了「to」)
也不能寫
They don't understand how a teenager like Vijay can confine himself to home. (「 home」在這裏不能是 adverb,而必須是 noun,所以要有 article 或 possessive determiners (e.g. my, his, etc))
但可以寫
They don't understand how a teenager like Vijay can confine himself to his home.
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PS
不能寫
They don't understand how a teenager like Vijay can confine himself in the house.(因為「confine」之後的 preposition 必定要是「to」)
可以寫
They don't understand how a teenager like Vijay can confine himself to the house.