locative adverb + preposition – English Grammar Profiler

When you combine a locative adverb and a preposition, you get a phrase that describes where something is or where something happens. For example, here in the garden, there on the shelf, inside of the box, outside of the house, etc. These phrases are called adverbials of location and they can modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. For example:

She was sitting here on the sofa when I arrived. (modifies the verb sit)
The cake is delicious there in the fridge. (modifies the adjective delicious)
He ran inside of the building very quickly. (modifies the adverb quickly)

A search in the NOW corpus at 17.7 billion words for:

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1 FORWARD TO 917612

I‘m looking forward to it too.

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2 HERE IN 463871

I mean

the reason you left here in the first place is

they were going to throw you in jail, right?

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3 HOME TO 243823 4 TOGETHER IN 240305 5 HERE ON 195577 6 THERE IN 186948 7 AWAY IN 173598 8 HOME IN 173122 9 HERE AT 170363 10 HOME FROM 131317 11 AWAY AT 113779 12 ANYWHERE IN 108035 13 ELSEWHERE IN 105692 14 FORWARD IN 98486 15 AWAY BY 89411 16 AWAY ON 89162 17 AWAY TO 85563 18 TOGETHER ON 84438 19 THERE ON 76268 20 MIDWAY THROUGH 68573 21 SOMEWHERE IN 67504 22 AHEAD IN 62876 23 BEHIND IN 61946 24 TOGETHER AT 59955 25 HOME ON 58257 26 THERE AT 50410 27 TOGETHER AS 48750 28 AHEAD TO 47644 29 HOME AFTER 45488 30 OUTSIDE OFF 40785 31 FORWARD BY 40615 32 TOGETHER BY 40608

33 NOWHERE NEAR 39896

The phrase “nowhere near” is an adverbial phrase that means “not even close to.” It is typically used to emphasize that something is not as good, as much, or as far along as something else.

1 AS 18833 2 ENOUGH 5609 3 GOOD 2277 4 ‘RE 2183 5 STILL 1769 6 LEVEL 1426 7 BAD 905 8 READY 811 9 THOUGH 781

34 ACROSS FROM 39211 35 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 39086 36 BELOW BEFORE 39079 37 ANYWHERE FROM 38706 38 HOME AT 38324 39 ANYWHERE NEAR 36205 40 HERE TO 34097 41 THERE TO 31650 42 FORWARD ON 31457 43 BEHIND BY 29912 44 HERE FROM 26854 45 EVERYWHERE IN 26004 46 ACROSS TO 25616 47 BEHIND ON 25268 48 THERE BY 24794 49 THERE AS 24421 50 HERE BY 23472 51 THERE FROM 23226 52 APART IN 22060 53 AHEAD ON 21507 54 HERE AS 21456 55 AWAY AFTER 21239 56 ANYWHERE BETWEEN 21165 57 HOME BY 20978 58 OUTSIDE IN 20898 59 ELSEWHERE ON 20311 60 FORWARD FROM 18027 61 NOWHERE IN 17221 62 ANYWHERE ON 16272 63 ACROSS AS 16193 64 OUTSIDE OUT 16013 65 WORLDWIDE IN 15690 66 AHEAD BY 14447 67 ABROAD IN 14334 68 TOGETHER TO 14205 69 APART BY 14182 70 AHEAD AT 14093 71 FORWARD AS 13935 72 TOGETHER FROM 13260 73 TOGETHER AFTER 13086 74 TOGETHER INTO 12220 75 ABACK BY 11874 76 ACROSS IN 11805 77 TOGETHER DURING 11766 78 FORWARD INTO 11734 79 FORWARD AT 11390 80 ABOVE IN 11259 81 THERE AFTER 11132 82 BEHIND AT 11117 83 SOMEWHERE ALONG 11036 84 THERE BEFORE 10675 85 HERE AFTER 10662 86 ASIDE IN 10612 87 TOGETHER THROUGH 10500 88 BELOW ON 9963 89 AWAY AS 9946 90 TOGETHER OVER 9762 91 ASIDE BY 9623 92 FAR OFF 9415 93 OUTSIDE ON 9407 94 TOGETHER LIKE 8971 95 TOGETHER UNDER 8946 96 THERE DURING 8899 97 BOARD AS 8712 98 SOMEWHERE ON 8272 99 OVERSEAS IN 8166