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Near to me or near me? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange OALD adds a note that Near to is not usually used before the name of a place, person, festival, etc Not only is near me considerably more popular than near to me in both British and American books, but a look through instances of the latter shows many Biblical quotes and other archaic language In the NOW Corpus, near me is 31 times
Confused between Near something and Near to something I get confused when I read 'near' and 'near to' something I often hear people saying 'near' without 'to', but then 'near to' is also correct For example read the following sentences: Where is you
Near, Nearer, Nearest - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Take me to a near station When you are referring to a distance, you cannot place the word near as an adjective in front of a noun You should place the adjective nearby to modify the noun station in this case So the right sentence is: Take me to a nearby station However, you can use the near in front of a noun when you refer to a time, a friend or relative, or when it means "almost" as
How much is that this it? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange The woman called the ring that because it was on the other woman's finger, even though it was near I might well call something near me that if I was not holding or touching it (unless I was using this and that to compare a near and a far object)
Is there any difference between sit next to someone, sit beside . . . They have slightly different implications in some contexts: "sit next to me" implies sitting in the very next seat, on one side or the other How close that is will depend on how closely the seats are spaced, however "sit beside me" often implies sitting fairly close, possibly touching "sit by me" just means sitting in my general vicinity
A person that you share the neighborhood with neighbor : a person who lives next to or near another person : a person or thing that is next to or near another This is why you might (often) hear next-door neighbor Such a neighbor lives in an adjacent home to you This is to distinguish that neighbor from a neighbor who lives in a house across from you or down the block
Beside VS Next to VS By [closed] - English Language Learners . . . On the other hand "by" means "near", but a lit closer than "near" Irrespective of the fact that "beside" is more formal and "next to" is a bit more casual, I was wondering whether I have been wrong in defining the following pairs as correct or incorrect: 1 a Come and sit beside me (Correct) 1 b Come and sit next to me