arrive
- reach
‘arrive’
You use arrive or reach to say that someone comes to a place at the end of a journey.
I'll tell Professor Sastri you've arrived.
He reached Bath in the late afternoon.
You usually say that someone arrives at a place.
We arrived at Victoria Station at 3 o'clock.
However, you say that someone arrives in a country or city.
He had arrived in France slightly ahead of schedule.
The ambassador arrived in Paris today.
Be careful
Don't say that someone ‘arrives to’ a place.
Don't say that someone ‘arrives to’ a place.
Be careful
Don't use a preposition after arrive in front of home, here, there, somewhere, or anywhere.
Don't use a preposition after arrive in front of home, here, there, somewhere, or anywhere.
We arrived home and I carried my suitcases up the stairs.
I arrived here yesterday.
She rarely arrives anywhere on time.
‘reach’
Reach always takes a direct object. Don't say that someone ‘reaches at’ a place or that they ‘have just reached’.
It was dark by the time I reached their house.