prepositions - Near to me or near me? - English Language Learners . . . In the NOW Corpus, near me is 31 times more common This is a different matter with some other position-related words; something can be close to me but not close me, and the same for next to, proximate to, and so forth
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
adjectives - Near, Nearer, Nearest - English Language Learners Stack . . . 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
Difference between Its fine with me and its fine to me? It looks like fine to me is absolutely incorrect Where did you read this sentence? It's fine with me is perfectly correct English, and a common expression It's fine to me is also perfectly good English The American who told you that It's fine to me is "wrong" simply does not understand her own language!
Do we say to go up to somebody to mean to move towards somebody, in . . . We only have the " come up (to somebody) " in dictionaries, we don't see its counterpart " go up (to somebody) " come up (to somebody) to move towards somebody, in order to talk to them He came up to me and asked me the way to the station Do we need to worry about the direction when using come up (to somebody)? There are 2 paragraphs: 1- "Tom went to a bar He saw a nice girl and he came up
A person that you share the neighborhood with Please don't vote to close this as a question that can be answered with a dictionary Most dictionaries are not clear about subtleties like what this question asks about neighbor, and the question actually asks something that's hard to look up: whether there is a word that matches a specific meaning (Theoretically a thesaurus can do that, but we all know that seldom works in practice )