"Besides" usage. The 2nd post.

Good day, mates. How is it going?

Today we have the second post of our 2-post journey we've started a while ago.

Who hasn't seen the first post for any reason, here is the link.

"Beside" usage. The 1st post.

Good day, mates. And thank you for your interest.I am Bri'ish

Alright, if you remember I've told you that there is a word that has nothing the same with "beside" except the spelling. It's "besides".

Before we can even say "Jack Robinson", let's start.

"Besides" in general

• "Besides"is a preposition or a linking adverb.
• as a preposition "besides" means "in addition to", "also", and in some cases - "except"***.
• as an adverb "besides" is used to introduce additional information.

"Besides" as a preposition

Remember! "Besides" is used to add something, meanwhile "except" is used to exclude something.

e.g.

• besides a pizza, I love a salad and chocolate. (in addition)
• besides its famous bread, the bakery also makes nice pizza. (in addition)
• ***there is no one here besides me. (except; but we also can consider it as 'in addition', like 'no one is here in addition to me', 'me + nobody', it is easier to remember because a literal 'except' is used for the opposite purpose)
• what do you like besides reading books in the evening? (in addition)
• I want to learn dancing besides English and IT. (in addition)
• I like everything in this company. I like people here besides a nice office-building. (in addition)

a couple of examples with "except" (when we want to exclude something, not add)

• I like all kinds of pizza except a pizza with pineapples.
• they serve different types of beer except German ones.

"Besides" as an adverb

Remember! When "besides" is placed before the information we want to add, it requires a comma after "besides".

In most cases it will be better to start a sentence with "besides" to show the idea that we want to add something and to highlight it. Divide a sentence into two sentences and it will be 100% correct.

• I love you. Besides, I want to make you happy. (I am not only in love with you, the additional information is that I also want to make you happy)
• I love you. Besides, I also want to make you happy. (We can put "also" here to extremely highlight our wish)
• I like the beer at this pub, and, besides, it doesn't cost too much. (the last part is additional information)
• they serve beer and crisps here and a lot of other food besides. (no comma because "besides" is placed after the information)
• I hate people in the company I've worked recently. Besides, a dining room in the office-building was terrible.

We've got the journey done, mates!

Now all of us understand the difference between "beside" and "besides".

Thank you all. See you next time.

Bye bye.

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