Visit usually takes a direct object: visit a friend, visit a city. Some prepositions are possible in specific meanings or fixed expressions.
Use visit directly with the person or place. “Visit with” is common in North American English for spending time talking. “Visit by” and “visit from” usually function as noun phrases, not verb-preposition combinations.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Visit most often takes a direct object without a preposition.
Visit with means spend time talking or socialising, especially in North American English.
In usually introduces the location of the activity rather than a fixed pattern.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Visit usually takes a direct object.
✕ We visited to the museum. ✓ We visited the museum.Visit from is common with the noun visit, not after the verb.
✕ My uncle visited from us. ✓ My uncle visited us.Visit with normally refers to people.
✕ They visited with the museum. ✓ They visited the museum.Visit on has a special formal meaning of imposing something.
✕ We visited on our friends yesterday. ✓ We visited our friends yesterday.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. It is common in North American English for social conversation.
Usually no. Visit from is mainly used with the noun visit, as in a visit from my brother.
In formal English, it can mean impose something unpleasant, such as visit punishment on someone.
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