In Front of Vs Across From

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DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN
ACROSS FROM & IN
FRONT OF
In front of means in front of.

Across from means across from.

Some things have a front side and a back side.

Houses, for example.

The front side is the side that faces the street. The back side is the
side that doesn't face the street.

If you're knocking on the front door, you're in front of the house.

If you're knocking on the back door, you're in back of the house (or
behind it).

People also have a from side and a back side.

The front side is the side where the face is.

The back side is the side where the face isn't.


If I'm standing in a line, one person is standing in front of
me and another person is standing in back of (or behind)
me.

Across from means on the other side.

If the library is on one side of the street and the post office
is on the other, the post office is across the street from the
library

If one person sitting on one side of a table, and another


person is sitting on the other side of the table, the two
people are sitting across from each other.

If England is on the east side of the Atlantic ocean and


Canada is on the west side of the Atlantic ocean, then
England is across the pond from Canada.
Across from means theres a division or separation of some sort.

For example if you say across from someone at a poker table it would mean the table was
the seperation.

To stand across from a store could mean the road is the separation or what stands between.

You can still be in front of something while being across from it.

To be in front of something means its directly in front of.

Example sentences:

I was driving down the road. But I can't go anywhere because there's a deer in front of my
car.

A: I'll meet you across from the cafeteria in the mall.


B: In front of the shoe store?
A: Yeah

I traveled across the ocean. When I reached Spain there was nothing but beautiful sand in
front of me.
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