Home & living
home base
familiar secure place
A home base is a familiar place where you feel comfortable and safe, especially while doing activities elsewhere.
Hear it in real life
Where did everyone meet between matches?
The cafe was our home base.
We used my aunt's apartment as our home base while we explored the city.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We used the hotel as ‸ home base while we explored the city.
Say: We used the hotel as a home base while we explored the city.
After "as," use the article "a" when one place serves as a home base.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
be home base; use something as a home base
Your turn: say it out loud
We used my aunt's apartment as our home base while we explored the city.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
home base
familiar secure place
“We used my aunt's apartment as our home base while we explored the city.”
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