Question

preposition: His house is ____ the corner ( Round / Around) Around the corner is phrase so what is the answer?

Answer 1

Answer:

His house is around the corner. Word in the bold is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Around the corner phrase refers to a nearby location or something very close to a place ,  for example as used in the above sentence.

Around the corner phrase is also used to determine a time phrase to state some event which is around the corner or is about to happen soon (  coming very soon ).

For example , Her exam is around the corner,yet she is not studying . This sentence refers that is the  exams were approaching  yet she was not studying .
Same phrases in English language have different meaning  and has to understood with the usage.

Answer 2

His house is 'Around' the corner.

• Around the corner refers to a nearby location or something very close to a place.
• Whereas Round refers to the shape of an object such as a circle.
• We refer to the location as around.
• In simple terms, Round refers to the shape of something. Around refers to the location, that the object to which around refers is in the area surrounding something.

So the word used is 'Around'

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