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Osee Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Thoughts vs thinking

May I know the difference between them? Thank you.
  

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"Thought" is the past tense of "think". "Thoughts" indicates "opinions" or "views". For Ex: What are your thoughts about it?

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  • "Thought" is the past tense of "think".
  • "Thoughts" indicates "opinions" or "views".
  • For Ex: What are your thoughts about it?
  • it is different from "Thought" (without 's' in the end).
  • Ex: I thought tomorrow is a holiday .
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"Thought" is the past tense of "think". "Thoughts" indicates "opinions" or "views".

For Ex: What are your thoughts about it?
it is different from "Thought" (without 's' in the end). Ex: I thought tomorrow is a holiday.

"Thinking" is an action, so its clearly a verb. Say, "What are you thinking?" which implies you what to know what a person is having in
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Could you kindly discuss this further? I'm an EFL teacher and i have been telling my students to use thoughts rather than thinkings. I am not so sure I am right anymore because they keep coming to class with articles where thinkings is used as opposed to thoughts! Is it safe to say that this is a more formal style suitable for writing rather than speaking? Please help! Thanks
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AnonymousI'm an EFL teacher and i have been telling my students to use thoughts rather than thinkings.
And you don't capitalize the first person singular nominative personal pronoun?!
Well anyway, you are right. 'Thinkings' could only be considered by a professional writer who wished to use for special effect a different word than 'thoughts'. It has noth
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Thank you so much! My apologies, i'm using my phone and I get lazy with punctuation.
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