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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
power vs. supply
Taking a test, I had to choose from "supply" and "power" to end the followin sentence: The farmhouse was so isolated that they had to generate their own electricity supply / power. My option was supply and it turned out to be the correct one, but I only choosed it becaused it sounded OK to me and not because I have a basic knouledge when to use these words. Could you explain to me why "supply" is the correct answer and not "power" ?
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Good question. It is simply that we use the noun ('electricity') with 'supply', but not with 'power', where we use the adjective ('electric'). Hence, these are accepted: electric power electricity supply I am not sure that a general rule can be extrapolated, but you can probably notice that we use 'supply of electricity' but not 'power of electricity'.
- Good question.
- It is simply that we use the noun ('electricity') with 'supply', but not with 'power', where we use the adjective ('electric').
- Hence, these are accepted: electric power electricity supply I am not sure that a general rule can be extrapolated, but you can probably notice that we use 'supply of electricity' but not 'power of electricity'.
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Good question. It is simply that we use the noun ('electricity') with 'supply', but not with 'power', where we use the adjective ('electric'). Hence, these are accepted:
electric power
electricity supply
I am not sure that a general rule can be extrapolated, but you can probably notice that we use 'supply of electricity' but not 'power of electricity'.
electric power
electricity supply
I am not sure that a general rule can be extrapolated, but you can probably notice that we use 'supply of electricity' but not 'power of electricity'.
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