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Gene93 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
false/incorrect/wrong
Hello,
Would they all fit the sentences below and what would be the differences in meaning in your opinion? Here they are:
- The statement you just made is utterly false/incorrect/wrong.
- Predictions of an early improvement in the housing market proved false/incorrect/wrong.
- She gave false/incorrect/wrong information to the insurance company. - I would use false and I can see the difference between them here.
- We usually say that an answer's wrong or incorrect. Can we also use false in this collocation?
I think they all fit the first sentence and I think they would be about the same. If something we say is false, it is wrong or incorrect.
I don't know why, but I don't think "wrong" fits the second sentence.
Thank you and feel free to correct me.
Would they all fit the sentences below and what would be the differences in meaning in your opinion? Here they are:
- The statement you just made is utterly false/incorrect/wrong.
- Predictions of an early improvement in the housing market proved false/incorrect/wrong.
- She gave false/incorrect/wrong information to the insurance company. - I would use false and I can see the difference between them here.
- We usually say that an answer's wrong or incorrect. Can we also use false in this collocation?
I think they all fit the first sentence and I think they would be about the same. If something we say is false, it is wrong or incorrect.
I don't know why, but I don't think "wrong" fits the second sentence.
Thank you and feel free to correct me.
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1. All three can be used here. Wrong would probably be most often used and is the most general word in this situation.
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- All three can be used here.
- Wrong would probably be most often used and is the most general word in this situation.
- Incorrect sounds formal and academic, a teacher might say this.
- False is the most strongly negative word.
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1. All three can be used here. Wrong would probably be most often used and is the most general word in this situation. Incorrect sounds formal and academic, a teacher might say this. False is the most strongly negative word.
2. All three can be used here. In this technical type of statement there is not much difference in nuance for the three. All would mean basically the same thi
2. All three can be used here. In this technical type of statement there is not much difference in nuance for the three. All would mean basically the same thi
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Thank you. I gave it some more thought as well. I think that "false information" would indeed be illegal. Another name, date of birth. It's similar to assuming someone else's identity, pretending to be someone you are not. That's what it means to me. Incorrect and wrong sound about the same to me. Maybe she unintentionally said that she was born on the 10th of June and she was born on the 12th. So
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