Michelle Kaplan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But everyone likes that.
I know.
Especially for someone who's Gen X because it was all 80s.
It was very much what we grew up with.
So it's pretty fun.
And as an adjective, nearby is much more common than near.
They're both grammatically accurate, very possible in a sentence, but you'll hear nearby more.
For example, we can go to a nearby beach or they didn't move to the area due to pollution from a nearby factory.
So that word is an adjective describing the noun that's directly after a nearby beach, a nearby factory.
Yes, right?
So near is not as common, but it is in these chunks, like near disaster or near future, for example.
Exactly.
Or I think AI will be everywhere in the near future.
So these chunks, we will use near, but there's only a few of them.
And then we don't use near very much as an adjective in other sentences in other contexts.
We'll see if any of this is accurate.