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I am already home vs I was already home

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'I am already home' is used when the speaker is currently at home. 'I was already home' is used when referring to a past situation where the speaker was already at home.
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I am already home

This phrase is correct and commonly used when the speaker is currently at home.

This phrase is used to indicate that the speaker is currently at home, emphasizing the state of being at home at the present moment.

Examples:

  • I am already home, so we can start the meeting without me.
  • Don't worry about picking me up, I am already home.
  • I am already at home and I will not hang in the shower.
  • He can't because I'm already home.
  • The stranger on our shores, rather than those already home.
  • And we decided we're already home.
  • Chrissie was already home when I got back.
  • 45 minutes later and you're already home.
  • And I'm already home, baby...
  • When we were with the circus, we were already home.
  • Wait, are you already home?
  • Then I talk to Bubix, that is already home.
  • Wait, are you already home?
  • Half an hour to the airport, and from there already home.
  • From your TV show "Already Home."
  • This ship is already home for the indigent, the unwanted, the unworthy.
  • When you get home and unload your stuff, or if you're already home and are finished with something, you must put it away in its home.
  • Further along the right side of the former church of S. Claudio built in sec. XIII. The adjoining monastery, already home to a factory, now converted into a neighborhood home.
  • Contention between the Goths and Greeks during the war that, for eighteen years (535 - 553 AD), upset the lands Italic, Perugia was to finally Byzantines. But a few decades later, was already home to a dukedom Lombard.
  • The central Arsiero is therefore designed to further ease the burden on a stream that is already home to other plants but in order to optimize the existing situation by returning to the creek water out.
  • inside of me realized I was already home.
  • San Gimignano was already home for a small Etruscan village, but its history began around the tenth century, taking its name from the Holy Bishop of Modena, San Gimignano.

Alternatives:

  • I have already arrived home
  • I am already at home
  • I am home already
  • I am already back home
  • I am already in my house

I was already home

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to a past situation where the speaker was already at home.

This phrase is used to indicate that the speaker was already at home in the past, emphasizing the state of being at home at a specific point in the past.

Examples:

  • When you called, I was already home.
  • I was already home when the storm hit.
  • And yet, I was already home.
  • I was already home.
  • inside of me realized I was already home.
  • At the grandfather the food proceeded not for long and when hours in twelve, the father came home from shtiblya, I was already at home, ready to a meal.
  • Chrissie was already home when I got back.
  • He can't because I'm already home.
  • The stranger on our shores, rather than those already home.
  • And we decided we're already home.
  • 45 minutes later and you're already home.
  • And I'm already home, baby...
  • Contention between the Goths and Greeks during the war that, for eighteen years (535 - 553 AD), upset the lands Italic, Perugia was to finally Byzantines. But a few decades later, was already home to a dukedom Lombard.
  • San Gimignano was already home for a small Etruscan village, but its history began around the tenth century, taking its name from the Holy Bishop of Modena, San Gimignano.
  • When we were with the circus, we were already home.
  • Wait, are you already home?
  • Then I talk to Bubix, that is already home.
  • Wait, are you already home?
  • Half an hour to the airport, and from there already home.
  • From your TV show "Already Home."
  • This ship is already home for the indigent, the unwanted, the unworthy.
  • When you get home and unload your stuff, or if you're already home and are finished with something, you must put it away in its home.

Alternatives:

  • I had already been home
  • I had already arrived home
  • I was already at home
  • I was home already
  • I was already back home

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