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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Confine or limit

Which word it correct when I mean to say this:

If you choice this red shoes, it will 'confine or limit' your choices for clothes.

Which is correct confine or limit? And what is the difference between the two words?

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Top answer

) "limit" - reduce in colour, size, material, style. "confine to" - isolate certain items that would match the shoes.

— Wilpeter

  • ) "limit" - reduce in colour, size, material, style.
  • "confine to" - isolate certain items that would match the shoes.
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Your question wording: "Which word is correct..."

"If you choose these red shoes, it will limit your choices of clothes."
(The actual clothes you can wear with these shoes is limited - but not listed or stated.)

"If you choose these red shoes, it will confine your choices of clothes to (list)."
(There would be an actual suggeste
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Which word it correct when I mean to say this:

If you choice this red shoes, it will 'confine or limit' your choices for clothes.
You have some errors.
Say eg If you choose these red shoes, it will limit your choice of clothes.

Which is correct confine or limit?
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Thank you. So your explanation tells me that they both have got to so with selecting items that would match, except that to use confine the context has to emphasize on the limited choices from a list. Right?
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