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Grapepark Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
To be near to something
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She was near to faint from sadness.
She was near to faint from sadness.
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The British National Corpus is useful for things like this. edu/bnc / I checked you phrase and I could imagine that "She was near fainting from sadness" might be better. Go see for yourself!
- The British National Corpus is useful for things like this.
- edu/bnc / I checked you phrase and I could imagine that "She was near fainting from sadness" might be better.
- Go see for yourself!
- (near + fainting vs.
- near + to faint) Regards, ODP
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The British National Corpus is useful for things like this. You can see if a combination of words is used in contemporary language:
http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
I checked you phrase and I could imagine that "She was near fainting from sadness" might be better. Go see for yourself! (near + fainting vs. near +
http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
I checked you phrase and I could imagine that "She was near fainting from sadness" might be better. Go see for yourself! (near + fainting vs. near +
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