Use of adjacent or adjacent to

0The bathroom adjacent to the living room is painted green. 02br
00The bathroom is adjacent to the living room. 02br
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00These are correct. 0-

0 MrM, is it possible to say: 02br
00The adjacent bathroom to the living room is painted green. 0-

0 I would not say it that way, but you could imply it: "The living room is painted white, and has green carpeting. The adjacent bathroom is painted green. " 0-

0'Adjacent to', like 'next to' and 'close to', is a complex preposition of place, and should not be split, Latin: 02br
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00The bathroom next/close/adjacent to the living room is green. 02br
01b00X02b00 The next/close/adjacent bathroom to the living room is green. 0-

0 "adjacent to" is definitely OK. 02br
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00But in the other case, you want an analogy, I take it, with "the bathroom opposite the living room" to form "the bathroom adjacent 01u00the02u00 living room". 02br
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00Hmmm. I find it acceptable but not the most usual phrasing. 02br
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00CJ 0-

On the contrary, I understand "the bathroom adjacent the living room" to have greater historical pedigree than "the bathroom adjacent to the living room", even though the latter is more common in contemporary usage. A notable exception is in technical engineering writing (such as is found in patents), in which the former is more usual.

I believe that the use of the word "adjacent" or the phrase "adjacent to" sometimes depends upon where it is located in a sentence.

Adjacent can be used alone directly before a word it modifies, or it can follow a word it modifies along with the word to.

For example:

There is a chair adjacent to the desk.
or
The desk and adjacent chair are being s

Guest Which is correct? The bathroom adjacent to the living room or The bathroom adjacent living room

AnonymousWhich is correct? The bathroom adjacent to the living room or The bathroom adjacent living room

The first one. (underlined)

CJ