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Anonymous Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Sit across from/sit opposite

I sat across from him./I sat opposite him.

Do the sentences mean the exact same?

  

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anonymous Do the sentences mean the exact same? Not necessarily. I'd probably use "opposite" if I was facing him.

— CalifJim

  • anonymous Do the sentences mean the exact same?
  • Not necessarily.
  • I'd probably use "opposite" if I was facing him.
  • I'd probably use "across from" if we were facing the same way.
  • CJ
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anonymousDo the sentences mean the exact same?

Not necessarily.

I'd probably use "opposite" if I was facing him.

I'd probably use "across from" if we were facing the same way.

CJ

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anonymousDo the sentences mean the exact same?

It depends. At a conference table, if we are face to face with the table between us, you are sitting both across from and opposite me. If we are on a train, and we are both sitting in the same four-seat table nook, you are across the table from me if our knees touch, and you are opposite me at the table, but yo

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