Michelle Kaplan
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So it's followed by a noun phrase, right?
The library, near the library.
And we can't use nearby.
We don't use it as a preposition.
For something to be really difficult.
And it's true.
If I lived, if my college town were near a beach, getting grades would have been an uphill battle for me.
I would have been at the beach all the time.
I'd probably failed out.
And then I said, well, in the near future, I hope to live by a beach.
So an adjective here in that chunk, in the near future, just meaning soon.
Exactly.
Absolutely.
So for the episode that inspired this one, scroll up and check out 2543.
Go out of your way for these English direction phrases.
Yeah, this is interesting because this is a pretty minor error.
Don't stress too much about whether you should say near or nearby, but it is interesting.
It comes up so much in conversations, you know, when you're talking about what's close to what, you know, about proximity.
It's interesting.