[General] met him on the street

[Silverobama]

Hi,

I knew a man recently on the street when I was playing with kids. He's a native speaker. I invited him to be a guest of a local English club.

Someone asked where I met this interesting man, Paul. I said:

I met him on the street.

Is my sentence natural?

 

[Rover_KE]

Both in and on are natural to me in this context.

 

[emsr2d2]

I knew a man recently on the street when I was playing with my/some kids. He's a native speaker. I invited him to be a guest [STRIKE]of[/STRIKE] at a local English club.

The underlined part doesn't make sense. You don't "know" someone on the street (well, you can, but in a completely different context). Your example sentence used "met". Why didn't you use the same word in your opening?

I would probably say that I invited him to be my guest at the English club.

 

[Silverobama]

Both in and on are natural to me in this context.

Besides the preposition "on", is the rest of the sentence okay? For example, met, and the street.

I've heard "I met him on the streets".

 

[emsr2d2]

Using "on the streets" makes it sound as if you were homeless when you met him (and probably so was he). If you just happened to be in a street when you met him, use "in the street" (BrE) or "on the street" (AmE and sometimes BrE).

 

[Tdol]

The underlined part doesn't make sense.

I got to know him would work better for me.