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 more common
Near, Nearer, Nearest - English Language Learners Stack Exchange 3 a) Take me to a near station b) Take me to a nearer station than that station c) Take me to the nearest station I believe a) is not used but b) and c) are I want to hear a good explanation if there is
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
word choice - What verb is used for scattering the smoke smell off of . . . I started waving (?) my hands when he began smoking near me because of the smoke He noticed that I knew he farted because I started to swing (?) my hands to drive the smell away I tried to find a verb, but none of the examples in dictionaries to which I have access showed the verbs being used for this specific context
What is the difference between next to, beside, by, and near I would say that "next to" and "beside" are identical to me in meaning, signifying immediate adjacency "near" is a little more approximate and to me, implies it isn't "next to" but just "fairly close"
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