northanger abbey itv

Sun, 03 May 2026 15:05:16 +0000

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,. nearnext tonearnext to1. - "Near"-. He was sitting near her. As CarSmack mentioned, close to sounds more natural than near to. Looking at a Google nGram of usage, we see that near and close are used at similar rates, with close to at less than. 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.