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Near to is not usually used before the name of a place, person, festival, etc. Not only is near me considerably more popular than near to me in both British and American books, but a look through instances of the latter shows many Biblical quotes and other archaic language. In the NOW Corpus, near me is 31 times more common.
I said 'regardless of distance'. The woman called the ring that because it was on the other woman's finger, even though it was near. I might well call something near me that if I was not holding or touching it (unless I was using this and that to compare a near and a far object). –
"sit next to me" implies sitting in the very next seat, on one side or the other. How close that is will depend on how closely the seats are spaced, however. "sit beside me" often implies sitting fairly close, possibly touching. "sit by me" just means sitting in my general vicinity.
[near cannot be used before a noun to refer to distance] There is one exception to this near + noun restriction: It’s perfectly acceptable to use near + noun when referring to distance in a sentence that contrasts near with far, as in this example: The near side of the garage needs a paint job, but the far side looks okay.
-leave somebody doing something Never leave children playing near water unattended.-leave somebody to something I’ll leave you to it (=go away and let you continue with what you are doing). My youngest boy has not left my side (=has stayed near me) since his daddy was killed.
That's fine with me. This means Rachel has no objections to starting piano lessons in the fall. Rachel should not answer, "That's fine to me," because, idiomatically, to is not the preposition to use in this context. However, Rachel could say: That sounds fine to me. We frequently find the phrase fine to me after verbs like sounds or looks.
: a person who lives next to or near another person: a person or thing that is next to or near another. This is why you might (often) hear next-door neighbor. Such a neighbor lives in an adjacent home to you. This is to distinguish that neighbor from a neighbor who lives in a house across from you or down the block.
With another word order (like in the question) you most likely need to 'refresh' the verb (as you can see, me did is impossible): John visited the party last night as well as I did. If you simply use me, John visited the party last night as well as me. the sense will change to 'he visited both the party and me' (me is an object).
“I started waving away the stench/smoke 2 when he began smoking near me.” 1: Note that I removed "because of the smoke" for being excessively redundant. 2: "stench" is highly preferred in this specific sentence, because "smoke" would be redundant, but "waving away the smoke" is a good generic phrase if you are not also specifying that ...
There are at least a couple of reasons why "the year is coming to an end" is the idiomatic choice.. Firstly, "an end" better describes to the process or generality of something concluding, rather than pointing to a specific, singular conclusion.