Learn English – Next year. Vs in next year

grammaticality-in-contextprepositions

I'll see you in the next class.

This sentence sounds more correct than

I'll see you next class.

But why in the following_

We'll meet next year.

Vs

We'll meet in next year.

Here the first one (sentence without "in") sounds more natural? Is the second one grammatically incorrect?

Best Answer

Your class example is ambiguous. Do you mean

I'll see you in the next geography class (possibly next week).
I'll see you in the next class.

or

I'll see you in the class right after this one.
I'll see you next class. (possible)
I'll see you in the following class. (best)

In your examples

We'll meet next year. (good)
We'll meet in next year. (incorrect)
We'll meet in the next year (has a different meaning)
We'll meet in the new year. (best)

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