Michelle Kaplan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You could hear someone say this.
It's a very common error, but we recommend using near.
That's the grammatically correct option.
Good stuff.
Or he parked near the entrance to save time.
Same thing.
We wouldn't say he parked nearby the entrance to save time.
Like you said, some regional dialects, that might be more common.
It wasn't in mine.
There were a lot of grammar mistakes that were common in my regional dialect, but this wasn't one of them.
I didn't ever hear this.
So this is interesting.
It will always be followed by a noun or a noun phrase if it's a preposition.
For example, near my house, near the restaurant, near the hotel, near London.
These are nouns that have either a possessive pronoun, an article.
So it makes it a noun phrase.
Exactly, right?
And so all of these nouns are a direct object.
That gets a little more complicated.