What´s the meaning of " over near " ? What's the meaning of "over near" in this sentence:Now, as you can see on the map, there are three courts over near the football field and four behind the pro sho

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What´s the meaning of " over near " ?

What's the meaning of "over near" in this sentence:

Now, as you can see on the map, there are three courts over near the football field and four behind the pro shop.

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17 de nov de 2016 02:32

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It's interesting! This sounds perfectly natural to a native English speaker, and I never noticed how strange it really is.

"Over" means "away." It's not here, it's over there. How far away is indefinite. On a map, it means we are here on the map, and the place I'm taking about is not close to us, it's somewhere else on the map.

So, when you hear "over," it means "not nearby."

The natural question is "well, if it's not nearby, where is it?"

The next words answer that: "near the football field."

In a different situation, one might say "there's one court right here and three more over near the football field."

17 de novembro de 2016

¨Over near¨ is a shortened way of saying ¨over there, close to¨. The speaker could also have said ¨over there by the football field¨ and meant the same thing. It assumes that the speaker is not close to the football field when they are saying it.

17 de novembro de 2016