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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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near perfect vs nearly perfect

Are both correct?
That was a near perfect experience.
That was nearly a perfect experience.

That's a near impossible task to accomplish.
That's nearly impossible task to accomplish.
  

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The ones with nearly are correct. If you want to use near , you need a hyphen: near-perfect experience, near-impossibl e task.

  • The ones with nearly are correct.
  • If you want to use near , you need a hyphen: near-perfect experience, near-impossibl e task.
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The ones with nearly are correct. If you want to use near, you need a hyphen: near-perfect experience, near-impossible task.

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