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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

how can I distinguish these words'meaning : normal ordinary common

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how can I distinguish these words'meaning : normal ordinary common
  

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Read books. Yes, reading books sometimes is the only way to solve such things if you are not a native speaker. Can you say the weather is ordinary today?

— Doll

  • Read books.
  • Yes, reading books sometimes is the only way to solve such things if you are not a native speaker.
  • Can you say the weather is ordinary today?
  • Can you say the weather is common today?
  • Well, I wouldn't.
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Read books. Yes, reading books sometimes is the only way to solve such things if you are not a native speaker.

Can you say the weather is ordinary today? Can you say the weather is common today? Well, I wouldn't.

Common is different from ordinary and normal. You can differ common by only looking it up from the dictioanry. As for ordinary or normal, try to wrtie some sentence
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1. It was normal for him to have two cups of coffee after dinner.
- There was nothing axceptional about it. He normally had two cups of coffee after dinner. It was his routine.

2. I'm an ordinary man.
- I'm an average person. I'm not particularly tall or short, not particularly stupid or intelligent. I don't attract attention.

3. The sparrow is a
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