The difference between "review" and "comment " ?

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I can't understand the difference meaning of the "review" and the "comment" ? Sometimes they seem to equal, you can substitute for them each other optionally, but sometimes you can't. But I don't know when is the sometime? Thank you for the help in advanced.

PS: Is there any problems of grammar in my question?

Alanou · Accepted Answer

Is there any teacher can answer me? Thank you !

Alanou · Answer

I am sorry here, but I just wonder why still nobody could give me an answer for question?  Do I make offence to someone? "Boycott Alanou' question"? You can judge how poor is my english from my posted article. Sometimes I want to  express this meaning, but maybe it will convey you another meaning. Anyway, my english is very poor,especially in grammar and tense, so maybe you will misunderstand what I mean. So I came to here to ask for a help. Please tell me what happened and give me a hand, pls.

Clive · Answer

Hi Alanou,

I didn't see your query until now, because I have been busy away from my computer. Sometimes things take a little time.

I can't understand the difference in meaning between "review" and "comment". Sometimes they seem to mean the same, you can substitute them for each other optionally, but sometimes you can't. But I don't know when the "sometime" is? Thank you for the help in advance.

You're right that these words can often be interchanged, but here are a couple of comments.

review This suggests a more general and thorough check and assessment. If your boss asks you to review something, you'd better look at it carefully. He/she may blame you for any errors or problems that you miss if they are later found by someone else.

comment This suggests a less thorough look is required. If your boss asks you if you have any comments on something, he/she may not expect many comments, or indeed any comment at all. It doesn't sound like he expects you to check it carefully.

Best wishes, Clive

Alanou · Answer

Thank you very much, Clive. You meant , the "review" is a meaning of whole and careful check to something, but "comment" is a partly, careless check. Right? But another question from your comments, my teacher taught that a "transitive verb " can't follow(should I use passive tense here ?) by a "object". I found "substitute" is a transitive verb by dictionary, but why you use it in sentence "you can substitute them for each other optionally "? Pls tell me why , thanks a lot .

BarbaraPA · Answer

To ask someone to comment is not to ask them to do a careless check. It's asking if they have anything to add, change, revise, take out, fix, etc.

Regarding the transitive/intransitive, either you or your teacher got it backwards. A transitive verb needs an object. (Note that it's AN object, not A object, because object starts with a vowel sound.) An intransitive verb does not need an object. Some verbs can be either, depending on their context.

Marius Hancu · Answer

generally, a review is made from many individual comments ...

Alanou · Answer

Thank you two for the help. So happy to see you two kind teachers again, GG and MH.

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