Access before/after words

[SilkyA]

Hello

Is there any command in linux to search for a word in a file and print its surrounding words - say the immediate next word and the word before it.

Can it be done using awk?
Any other suggestions..

Thanks in advance!

(P.S : I apologize for posting my query in the wrong section earlier.)

[Franklin52]

One way:

awk -v var="myword" '$0 ~ var{
  for(i=1;i<NF;i++){if($i==var){print $(i-1) FS $(i+1)}}
}' file