I live ten minutes from my work (prepositions)

[Alexey86]

1. I live ten minutes from my work.
2. I live a ten-minute walk from my work.
3. I live within a ten-minute walk of my work.

Are the sentences correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

I'd remove "my" from all of them, or I'd change "work" to "workplace". The rest of each sentence is OK. They mean different things, though.

 

[GoesStation]

They're all grammatical. Number three is a bit odd; in that sentence "within" tells us you live ten minutes or less from your work. That's odd because you certainly know exactly how far away you live, so you have no need for an approximation.

 

[Yankee]

All are OK and not unusual in AmE. And depending on context "work" is typical versus "workplace".

 

[PeterCW]

All are OK and not unusual in AmE. And depending on context "work" is typical versus "workplace".

The AmE and BrE usuages are pretty much the same here. We would usually just say "work" but I would be more likely to say "place of work" rather than "workplace".

 

[emsr2d2]

Here's what I think I would use, in order of likelihood:

1. I live ten minutes from work.
2. I live ten minutes from where I work.
3. I live ten minutes from my workplace.
4. I live ten minutes from my place of work.

In all of them, I might use "a ten-minute walk/drive/bus ride" or "ten minutes' walk/drive/bus ride" instead of "ten minutes" but only if I needed to explain how I get to work.