near
part of speech
preposition (near); adjective (near, nearer, nearest); adverb (near); verb (near, nears, neared — to come closer)
meaning for a pupil
1) Near means close, not far away. The shop is near my house. tree →
2) Near can mean close in time: «Summer is near.» tree →
3) To near something is to come closer to it. tree →
4) «Nearest» means the closest one. tree →
5) «Near» can mean almost: «a near miss». tree →
sense in the lessons
a place word; «nearest» can mean rounding to the nearest ten or whole number; in everyday life «near» tells where things are; in safety stay near your group or a grown-up; phrases «near by» (nearby), «nearly» (almost), «near and far», «a near miss»
examples
- The park is near the school. tree →
- Round 47 to the nearest ten. tree →
- Who lives nearer to the lake? tree →
- There are 5 trees near the pond. tree →
- Stay near me in the crowd. tree →
- The holidays are near. tree →
- Round 3.6 to the nearest whole number. tree →
- As the ship neared the shore, we saw the lighthouse. tree →
note
As a place word it carries no operation. «To the nearest ten/whole» means round. «Nearer» compares distances. Trap: rounding is done at the end unless the problem says otherwise. «Nearly» means almost, not «close by»: «nearly 50» is a bit less than 50.
In the corpora
- Speed limits exist because faster cars cause worse accidents, especially near schools and homes.
- It was reported that fake AI pictures of an explosion near a famous building spread online and briefly worried people.
- On a real head the eyes sit about halfway down, not near the top.
- The blue tang has a sharp spine near its tail that it uses like a scalpel for defence.
- There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are, though bones may collect near water where weak old elephants stayed.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «near» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.