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He is near to death/near to death/close to death/close to dying/about to die.
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I'd say "near death," but you could use the gerund as the nominalized verb form: "He is near dying" or "He is close to dying."
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yes it is incorrect because die is the event (action) of death.
you can say, another way you could say this expression in a similar way is, he is close to death or
he is close to dying.. or he nearly died.
I don't know if I am making any sense to you but maybe this link will help.
http://www.vocabulary.cl/Lists/dead-death-die-died.htm
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Yes, it's incorrect. If you think about it, it makes no sense grammatically. 'Near (to)' is a preposition, so it has to be followed by a noun or a gerund.
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