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Lucus Ong Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Living alive live
live adj not dead
living adj not dead
alive adj not dead
In my justification, living use before nouns like"living relatives", alive not use before nouns like "are you alive?"
but I don't know wheter I am right?
and I don't know how to diffrentiate live with them.
living adj not dead
alive adj not dead
In my justification, living use before nouns like"living relatives", alive not use before nouns like "are you alive?"
but I don't know wheter I am right?
and I don't know how to diffrentiate live with them.
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In the literal meaning, the only thing resembling a rule that I can think of offhand is that "live" is usually used of animals rather than people: "this crate contains live fish". Otherwise, the choice, where it matters, seems to be based as much as anything on idiomatic considerations that seem hard to explain without spending an awful long time studying and analysing numerous examples. It seems to me that "live" is rather less common and rather more restricted in its range of possible uses.
- In the literal meaning, the only thing resembling a rule that I can think of offhand is that "live" is usually used of animals rather than people: "this crate contains live fish".
- Otherwise, the choice, where it matters, seems to be based as much as anything on idiomatic considerations that seem hard to explain without spending an awful long time studying and analysing numerous examples.
- It seems to me that "live" is rather less common and rather more restricted in its range of possible uses.
- Perhaps someone else can do better.
- As you say, "alive" comes after the noun: "the victim was alive".
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In the literal meaning, the only thing resembling a rule that I can think of offhand is that "live" is usually used of animals rather than people: "this crate contains live fish". Otherwise, the choice, where it matters, seems to be based as much as anything on idiomatic considerations that seem hard to explain without spending an awful long time studying and analysing numerous examples. It seems
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