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I don't have time to see the film, besides/apart from/aside from it's not interesting. Do the all mean the same? Which one is most common in speaking?

Fivejedjon · Accepted Answer

None of them is natural.

GPY · Answer

None of those are correct. These are possible:

I don't have time to see the film; besides, it's not interesting.
Apart/Aside from the fact that I don't have time to see the film, it's not interesting.

Tenjing · Answer

Thanks a lot, GPY. What about this one,
I like football besides/apart from/aside from cricket. Is this correct?

Tenjing · Answer

Could you please this one too with the sentence above?
Besides/apart from/aside from cooking rice she looks after her baby. Is this correct? Thank you.

GPY · Answer

tenjing Thanks a lot, GPY. What about this one,I like football besides/apart from/aside from cricket. Is this correct?

The emphasis seems a bit unnatural to me. If you want to use those words or phrases, I would put the sentence the other way around: "Besides / apart from / aside from cricket, I (also) like football".

tenjingBesides/apart from/aside from cooking rice she looks after her baby.

This is correct English (probably I would put a comma after "rice"). However, semantically it is potentially slightly odd because "looks after her baby" seems to describe activity that, if not full time, at least takes up a substantial part of the day, whereas "cooking rice" is normally a short-term activity. It sounds rather as if her job is cooking rice. If that's the case then the sentence would be OK.

Another phrase that you can use in such situations is "as well as".

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