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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Naughty
Hi,
The 'naughty' in the sentences below means a child does not obey adults, parents, teachers, etc. and behaves badly. Can I use mischievous or disobedient instead without changing the meaning here? For example:
1. You naughty/mischievous/disobedient boy! I told you not to play in the road.
2. It's naughty/mischievous/disobedient to pull your sister's hair.
3. You're a very naughty/mischievous/disobedient boy! Look what you've done!
4. Weren't we naughty/mischievous/disobedient not to eat our spinach?
Thanks.
The 'naughty' in the sentences below means a child does not obey adults, parents, teachers, etc. and behaves badly. Can I use mischievous or disobedient instead without changing the meaning here? For example:
1. You naughty/mischievous/disobedient boy! I told you not to play in the road.
2. It's naughty/mischievous/disobedient to pull your sister's hair.
3. You're a very naughty/mischievous/disobedient boy! Look what you've done!
4. Weren't we naughty/mischievous/disobedient not to eat our spinach?
Thanks.
Top answer
You can use disobedient only if the child was told to do (or not to do) something and the child did not obey that command. Naughty is little more "bad" than mischievious, and mischievious is related to what you do, not what you do NOT do. If you play a silly trick, you are mischevious.
- You can use disobedient only if the child was told to do (or not to do) something and the child did not obey that command.
- Naughty is little more "bad" than mischievious, and mischievious is related to what you do, not what you do NOT do.
- If you play a silly trick, you are mischevious.
- If you don't take out the garbage, you are not.
- 1 can use any.
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You can use disobedient only if the child was told to do (or not to do) something and the child did not obey that command.
Naughty is little more "bad" than mischievious, and mischievious is related to what you do, not what you do NOT do. If you play a silly trick, you are mischevious. If you don't take out the garbage, you are not.
1 can use any.
2 can't really use diso
Naughty is little more "bad" than mischievious, and mischievious is related to what you do, not what you do NOT do. If you play a silly trick, you are mischevious. If you don't take out the garbage, you are not.
1 can use any.
2 can't really use diso
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Hi,
Here is the underlying idea of each word, in the context of small children.
naughty - you do minor and childish bad things
mischievous - you make a little trouble, in a playful, often funny and basically harmless way
Here is the underlying idea of each word, in the context of small children.
naughty - you do minor and childish bad things
mischievous - you make a little trouble, in a playful, often funny and basically harmless way
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Hi,
Thank you Clive and GG very much for your replies.
However, I'm still confused about the usage of naughty and mischievous.
Someone told
Thank you Clive and GG very much for your replies.
However, I'm still confused about the usage of naughty and mischievous.
Grammar GeekYou can use disobedient only if the child was told to do (or not to do) something and the child did not obey that command.Can I also use naughty in this situation above? For example,
Someone told
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