Meaning & use
drive us home
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Meanings
phrasefixed phrase
To take us to our home in a car or other vehicle, with you controlling it.
Grammar: Use it with the object 'us' between 'drive' and 'home'. For other people, change the object: drive me home, drive them home.
Patterns
- drive someone home
- drive us home from somewhere
It's late and raining. Can you drive us home?
My uncle drove us home from the airport.
She offered to drive us home after the party.
phrasefixed phrasefigurative
To make us fully understand or accept an idea or fact.
Grammar: Used figuratively, often with 'home' meaning 'completely'. It usually needs an object like 'us' or 'the point'.
Patterns
- drive something home
- drive home a point
The teacher used a story to drive us home the importance of honesty.
The accident really drove home to us how dangerous that road is.
Common combinations
- drive someone home
- I'll drive you home if you're too tired to walk.
- drive us home from work
- He often drives us home from work when it's raining.
- offer to drive us home
- She kindly offered to drive us home after the concert.
- drive home a point
- The speaker drove home the point with a simple example.
Synonyms and how they differ
- take us home
- More general; it can mean going with us or leading us, not necessarily driving a vehicle.
- give us a lift home
- Informal British; it means the same but does not say who is driving.
Word family
Commonly confused: drive us home or ride us home?
drive us home vs ride us home
Not correct in standard English. You ride a horse or a bicycle, but you drive a car and drive someone home.
Practice
Choose the correct sentence.
Choose one answer.
'Us' is the correct object pronoun, and 'home' is used without 'to' after 'drive'. 'We' is a subject pronoun, 'our' is a possessive, and 'to home' is not used in this phrase.
Make it your own
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