Hone In Or Home In

Hone In Or Home In. You don't hone in on anything except maybe a sharp blade. Asking the right questions allowed me to hone in on their specific needs

Is it Hone In or Home In? Which is Correct? (Grammar + Examples) GrammarBrain
Is it Hone In or Home In? Which is Correct? (Grammar + Examples) GrammarBrain from grammarbrain.com

— Linda Harding-Bond, The Huffington Post, 7 Jan "Home in" and "hone in" are both two-word phrasal verbs that describe narrowing in on a target

Is it Hone In or Home In? Which is Correct? (Grammar + Examples) GrammarBrain

And who can blame them, really? The use of home that gave us the phrase home in is unfamiliar to the great majority of us for whom the word home is exclusively a noun In the 1400s, it began to be used in reference to a whetstone for sharpening razors and other cutting tools For example, an arrow moving towards its target homes in to its destination

. While home in means to get closer or focus on a target, hone in has become a colloquial variant of this phrase, even though hone traditionally means to sharpen For example, an arrow moving towards its target homes in to its destination

Is it Hone In or Home In? Which is Correct? (Grammar + Examples) GrammarBrain. Asking the right questions allowed me to hone in on their specific needs And who can blame them, really? The use of home that gave us the phrase home in is unfamiliar to the great majority of us for whom the word home is exclusively a noun