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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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supply vs power

I don't quite understand the difference between "supply" and "power" in the following sentence: The farmhouse was so isolated that they had to generate their own electricity ...... . When is it used the first and when the second?
  

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Anonymous I don't quite understand the difference between "supply" and "power" in the following sentence: The farmhouse was so isolated that they had to generate their own electricity I don't see the word 'supply' nor the word 'power' in that sentence, though you seem to be claiming that they are there. The farmhouse was so isolated that they had to generate their own electricity. Where are these words?

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  • Anonymous I don't quite understand the difference between "supply" and "power" in the following sentence: The farmhouse was so isolated that they had to generate their own electricity I don't see the word 'supply' nor the word 'power' in that sentence, though you seem to be claiming that they are there.
  • The farmhouse was so isolated that they had to generate their own electricity.
  • Where are these words?
  • CJ
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AnonymousI don't quite understand the difference between "supply" and "power" in the following sentence: The farmhouse was so isolated that they had to generate their own electricity
I don't see the word 'supply' nor the word 'power' in that sentence, though you seem to be claiming that they are there.

The farmhouse was so isolated that they had to
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AnonymousWhen is it used the first and when the second?
"Supply" and "power" are often used interchangeably, but in a very loose sense, when you're generating your own power, no supply is necessary.
You could think of the power lines coming from a source miles away as being the "supply."
(Or you could think of the power itself as being the suppl
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