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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

differing / different

Do differing and different have the same meaning?
  

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Anonymous Do differing and different have the same meaning? Yes, but they may have different/differing grammars. In what sentence?

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  • Anonymous Do differing and different have the same meaning?
  • Yes, but they may have different/differing grammars.
  • In what sentence?
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AnonymousDo differing and different have the same meaning?
Yes, but they may have different/differing grammars. In what sentence?
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Ordinarily they are used differently, since "differing" is usually a verb form, and "different" is a straight adjective. But "differing" can have a adjectival function as a verb form, and it is possible for them to have a similar meaning; for example, the following two sentences mean approximately the same thing:

There are differing opinions about the issue. ("Differing," although techn
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