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:
_RL _II
1 FORWARD TO 917612
I‘m looking forward to it too.
2 HERE IN 463871
the reason you left here in the first place is
they were going to throw you in jail, right?
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.
His writing is nowhere near as good as yours.
Here are collocates of ‘nowhere near’:
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
10 LEVELS 694
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
100 NATIONWIDE IN 8104