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Wangqh2696122 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

What's the difference between "in honor of" and "in memory of"?

St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of Lenin after his death.
A film will be made in memory of those brave firefighters.
A reception was held in honor of the new director.
What's the difference between "in honor of" and "in memory of"? Can they be used exchangeably?
  

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wangqh2696122 Can they be used exchangeably ? interchangeably ? No.

— CalifJim

  • wangqh2696122 Can they be used exchangeably ?
  • interchangeably ?
  • No.
  • "in memory of" is normally followed by a noun phrase that refers to the dead.
  • in memory of is to in honor of as remember is to honor .
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wangqh2696122Can they be used exchangeably? interchangeably?
No. "in memory of" is normally followed by a noun phrase that refers to the dead.

in memory of is to in honor of as remember is to honor.

If you are remembering someone by what you do, you are doing it in me
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Hi,

St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of Lenin after his death.
A film will be made in memory of those brave firefighters.
A reception was held in honor of the new director.
What's the difference between "in honor of" and "in memory of"?

In memory of almost always
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Thanks! By the way, in the above three sentences, are there any similarities?
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Hi,

What do you mean?

eg They all start with a capital (which is unusual for EF posts
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In the Race for the Cure we Honor the Living and Memories of the dead.
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