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Minhuoc Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
protective/protected.
Please help me explain "protective" and "protected". I don't know how to use them correctly. I always make mistakes with them. For example in the following sentence I chose "protected" but my brother chose "protective". I am confused. Please help.
"My mother always buys protective/protected foods in this shop."
Thanks very much.
"My mother always buys protective/protected foods in this shop."
Thanks very much.
Top answer
Protective describes something that gives protection . Protected describes something that receives protection .
- Protective describes something that gives protection .
- Protected describes something that receives protection .
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Protective describes something that gives protection.
Protected describes something that receives protection.
Protected describes something that receives protection.
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All the best :
maybe the rule can help you:
if you want to use V+ed that is meaning "something need be ......." like " there boxes need be fixed"
maybe the rule can help you:
if you want to use V+ed that is meaning "something need be ......." like " there boxes need be fixed"
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I am not familiar with the idea either of "protective foods" or "protected foods". These expressions do not seem to me to be English.
We have "safe foods". We have "healthy foods" or, more correctly, "healthful foods". But I don't think we have the two types of food you mention.
CJ
We have "safe foods". We have "healthy foods" or, more correctly, "healthful foods". But I don't think we have the two types of food you mention.
CJ
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Thank you for your help. But when you mention "healthy foods" and "healthful foods". I want to ask you if there is a difference between "healthy" and "healthful" or they are the same.
Thanks very much.
Thanks very much.
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People and animals can be healthy. They can have good health.
Foods can only be healthful. They can give us good health. They can make us healthy.
But many people confuse them so much that it is common to hear people talk about "healthy foods" even though, strictly speaking, they mean "healthful foods". That is, they say that the food has good health when they mean that th
Foods can only be healthful. They can give us good health. They can make us healthy.
But many people confuse them so much that it is common to hear people talk about "healthy foods" even though, strictly speaking, they mean "healthful foods". That is, they say that the food has good health when they mean that th
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CalifJimPeople and animals can be healthy. They can have good health.
Foods can only be healthful. They can give us good health. They can make us healthy.
But many people confuse them so much that it is common to hear people talk about "healthy foods" even though, strictly speaking, they mean "healthful foods". That is, they say that the food has go
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Then Cambridge now accepts language that my high school English teacher would never have tolerated 100 years ago! 
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