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are "opposite" and " across from" the same? there's a shop across the street there's a shop opposite the street
Oct 19, 2019 6:47 AM
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As the others have said, the second sentence should be "There's a shop on the opposite side of the street." When talking about physical positions, across and opposite can both be used for the same thing, but the way you word the sentence is different. "There's a shop across the street." "There's a shop across the street from the church." "Across the street from the church, there's a shop." With 'across', you need to mention what you need to cross (the street), but you can leave where you are (the church) implied. "There's a shop on the opposite side of the street." "There's a shop opposite the church." "Opposite the church, there's a shop." With 'opposite', you either need to mention where you are (the church) and leave the thing you're crossing implied, or you say it's on the opposite side of the thing you're crossing (the street). --- Opposite can be used for things other than position though. For example, 'yes' is the opposite of 'no'. 'Up' is the opposite of 'down'. 'Light' is the opposite of 'dark'. You would not use 'across' for this purpose..
October 19, 2019
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If you want them to mean the same, you would have to say; there's a shop on the opposite side of the street The second sentence is not wrong grammatically but it doesn't really mean anything. You could say; "There's a shop opposite the church", but when you say "opposite the street" it doesn't mean "across the street", it is hard to imaging what it is supposed to mean.
October 19, 2019
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They can get the same idea across, but you use them differently. The first one is right. The second one should be: “There’s a shop opposite the _____ on the street.”
October 19, 2019
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