Cách dùng tiếng Anh P4

beside / besides Some people argue that these two words should be kept distinct when they are used as prepositions. By this thinking, you should use beside only to mean “at the side of,” as in There was no one in the seat beside me. For the meanings “in addition to” and “except for” you should use besides: Besides replacing the back stairs, he fixed the broken bannister. No one besides Smitty would say a thing like that. But this distinction is often ignored by widely respected writers. While it’s true that besides can never mean “at the side of,” you...