Home or House or Residence- What is the difference between them ? (With memory trick)

Home vs. House vs. Residence vs. Apartment
What do you say? - "My house, sweet house or My home, sweet home." What is the difference between home and house ?


"A house in which nobody lives is nobody's home." 


The main topic in this post is about the difference between a house and a home.

What is the meaning of House ?
House is a noun and verb. It means a building for people to live in.

What is the meaning of Home ?
Home can be a noun, adjective, adverb, and verb. Home means a place, house, city, country, where you live.

What is the difference between a house and a home ?
A home is a place with that you are emotionally attached. A home can be any place: a town, a village, a house, a state, a country, and even a planet.
A House is only a structure. You live in the structure with your family, and you get connected emotionally with the structure; now you can call that structure your home.
House is concrete whereas home is abstract. If you say, "This is my house"; it means you are indicating the design of your building.
You can't see home; you can only feel the it.

Residence means a large and impressive house.
An apartment is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a large building. 

Mind Trick:
Is there any way or trick to learn the difference between house and home ?
Yes, there is a way out. As we know that home is an emotional place and house is only structural. The words home and emotional both have a common alphabet, "m". With the help of "m", we can memorize that home is something related to emotion. 
You must have heard: "Home, my sweet home".

Grammar error:
"I come to home" is wrong.
" You should return to home" is wrong.
We should write "I come home", "You should return home".
Here, home acts as an adverb. Therefore at or to is not correct.
Exception:
"at home" is an idiom. We write at home not in my, his, our, etc home.
We shall stay in his home.
we shall stay at home. ✘ 

In a nutshell
House is used to mean a concrete structure. 

Home means a place with emotional aspect.


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