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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
- How much is that this it? - 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) –
- 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
- nearby (close by) as an adjective, a preposition, or an adverb
[near cannot be used before a noun to refer to distance] There is one exception to this near + noun restriction: It’s perfectly acceptable to use near + noun when referring to distance in a sentence that contrasts near with far, as in this example: The near side of the garage needs a paint job, but the far side looks okay
- 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
- word usage - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
-leave somebody doing something Never leave children playing near water unattended -leave somebody to something I’ll leave you to it (=go away and let you continue with what you are doing) My youngest boy has not left my side (=has stayed near me) since his daddy was killed
- Me vs my [pronunciation] in British English
Moreover, the vowel in 'me' (the one you're referring to) is shorter ([mi]) than that of the regular 'me' ([mi:]) and this pronuncation of 'my' is usually used where 'my' is unstressed The pronunciation of emphatic stressed 'my' was in Middle English (before the Great Vowel Shift) and its unstressed unemphatic form was [mi]
- past tense - Please let me know when you finish or finished? - English . . .
I tell him: Please let me know when you finished and found me in side the big hall near the basketball playground 4) My friend with me, we had have an appointment somewhere at 3pm and he go to the market to buy trouser, he came late 3:45pm, I told him we can't go we are very late because I told you: Please let me know when you have finished to
- word choice - What verb is used for scattering the smoke smell off of . . .
“I started waving away the stench smoke 2 when he began smoking near me ” 1: Note that I removed "because of the smoke" for being excessively redundant 2: "stench" is highly preferred in this specific sentence, because "smoke" would be redundant, but "waving away the smoke" is a good generic phrase if you are not also specifying that
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