How to Use Relative Location

Remember back at the beginning of class when we learned how to say, "I am at the school"? You may have noticed that we never really learned to say where at the school we were.  Like, "inside of" or "outside of" or "next to" or "on top of".  That is because there is a particular structure we need for this.  Well, the time has come for us to learn this structure!  When we want to say things like:

"He's inside the house"
"I'm under the table"
"it's to the right of me"

We will use the following structure below:
subject 1 + zài + subject 2 (de) + position + (action)

Positions are words like "next to", "to the right of", "inside", "outside", etc. 
In each of the examples below, take the time to appreciate and absorb the difference between the Chinese, Chinglish, and English.

Position words：

shàngmiàn - topside	lǐmiàn - inside	qiánmiàn - frontside	zuǒbiān - leftside	pángbiān - nearside (next to)
xiàmiàn - underside	wàimiàn - outside	hòumiàn - backside	yòubiān - rightside	zhōngjiān - middle

subject 1 + zài + subject 2 (de) + position + (action)

Wǒde diànnǎo zài wǒ de chē lǐ. ——> My computer is at my car's inside. ——> My computer is inside my car. 我的电脑在我的车里。

Nǐde shǒujī  zài diànnǎo (de) yòubiān.——> Your phone is at the computer's right side. ——> Your phone is to the right of the computer. 你的手机在电脑的右边。

Wǒde érzi zài zhuōzi xiàmiàn kànshū.——> My son is at the table's underside reading. ——> My son is reading under the table. 我的儿子在桌子下面看书。

Xuéshēngmen zài wǒ jiā (de) pángbiān chīfàn.——>The students are at my house's nearside eating.--> The students are eating next to my house. 学生们在我家(的)旁边吃饭。

Note that most of the time, for lǐmiàn and shàngmiàn, we can omit the "miàn". For example, jiālǐ (in the house) and zhuōshàng (on the table).

subject 1 + zài + subject 2 gēn subject 3 (de) + zhōngjiān + (action)

Wǒde ěrjī zài wǒ de diànnǎo gēn wǒ de shū zhōngjiān。——> My headphone is at my computer and my book's middle. --> My headphone is between my computer and my book. 我的耳机在我的电脑跟我的书中间。