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Chariot Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

example, sample

How are "example" and "sample" different? Do we say "example sentences" or "sample sentences"?

How are "prediction" and "assumption" different? Does "prediction" stand for future events, and "assumption" talks about something that has happened?
  

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Sweet Chariot ;-) You may find some answers to your first question within the following thread : As for assumption vs prediction... Assumption is a statement you take for granted, upon which you build your reasoning or theory, and is synonymous to hypothesis. It has no connotation regarding time and can be with reference to past present or future.

— Waïti

  • Sweet Chariot ;-) You may find some answers to your first question within the following thread : As for assumption vs prediction...
  • Assumption is a statement you take for granted, upon which you build your reasoning or theory, and is synonymous to hypothesis.
  • It has no connotation regarding time and can be with reference to past present or future.
  • Prediction is a something you forecast or foretell about the future.
  • It is synonymous to prophecy for instance, but without the somehow religious connotation that prophecy has.
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Sweet Chariot ;-)

You may find some answers to your first question within the following thread :


As for assumption vs prediction...
Assumption is a statement you take for granted, upon which you build your reasoning or theory, and is synonymous to hypothesis. It has no connotation regarding time and can be with r
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