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- Near to me or near me? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
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
He's a near relative friend of mine I have no intention to visit London in near future We drove to the station in near silence (near used in the sense of almost) As for the sentence "Take me to a nearer station than that station", I think it also sounds a bit weird It should be as follows: Take me to a station which is nearer than that station
- 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 your book?-Near my bed Where is Wall Mart?-Near to my house Now, can I write them like this: Where is your book? -Near to my bed
- grammar - Could it be correct to say near from? - English Language . . .
Depending on how close you mean, you could also use near by The school is near by my house which has a closer meaning, e g across the street, than
- Is there any difference between sit next to someone, sit beside . . .
"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
- word choice - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I said 'regardless of distance' 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) –
- Difference between Its fine with me and its fine to me?
That's fine with me This means Rachel has no objections to starting piano lessons in the fall Rachel should not answer, "That's fine to me," because, idiomatically, to is not the preposition to use in this context However, Rachel could say: That sounds fine to me We frequently find the phrase fine to me after verbs like sounds or looks
- Me vs my [pronunciation] in British English
This is not a substitution of me for my but a common dialectal pronunciation of my (Northern England and some Australian accents) According to Wikipedia , other areas of the North have regularised the pronouns in the opposite direction, with meself used instead of myself
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