on your home phone

[rainous]

Can I call you later on your home phone?

Can I call your home later?

Hi,

Are these two sentences grammatically correct and do they basically have the same meaning?

And as for the first one, are prepositions other than "on" also acceptable to be used, such as "to" or "at"?

Thanks

[J&K Tutoring]

Both you examples are okay and common, though it's technically not correct to say can I when you mean may I. Other options would include:

Can I call you later at home?
I'll call you at home on your land line. (not your cell phone)

Mostly we (NA) use on when talking about telephone usage.

[emsr2d2]

I'll call you on your landline later.
I'll all you at home later.
Can I call you at home later?

I wouldn't use "on your landline" and "at home" together. Most people will assume that you mean their home landline not the landline at work.

[5jj]

... it's technically not correct to say can I when you mean may I.

'Can I...?' in that sense is competely acceptable to most speakers of BrE these days.

[J&K Tutoring]

That's why I used the word "technically". It is common to use "can I", though most educated people know it's not 'correct'. "May I" sounds too stuffy, so a lot of people will punt and simply say, "could I" or "Would it be okay if I..."

[5jj]

That's why I used the word "technically". It is common to use "can I", though most educated people know it's not 'correct'. "May I" sounds too stuffy, so a lot of people will punt and simply say, "could I" or "Would it be okay if I..."

I am probably being a little picky here, but who is to say that it is 'technically "correct"' nowadays? Even when the difference was hammered into me at school nearly sixty years ago, 'may I' was used in BrE only by a certain social class and those who aspired to be accepted by/in that class.

I would accept that 'may I' is still the preferred form in very formal speech, but I think that to suggest that 'educated'people know it is not 'correct' puts a restricted meaning on 'educated'. I have known many speakers with at least a first degree, including teachers of English, who consider 'may I' old-fashioned and unnecessary.