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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Word choice?

With the booming/blooming of the beauty industry, there are many choices for beauty products.

In the sentence, which is correct, booming or blooming? Thanks in advance.

  

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Hi Both are possible but they have different meanings: - The booming of the beauty industry. This means that there has been a great increase in the industry. It has gone off 'boom', like a cannon.

  • Hi Both are possible but they have different meanings: - The booming of the beauty industry.
  • This means that there has been a great increase in the industry.
  • It has gone off 'boom', like a cannon.
  • Business has been increasing at a very high rate.
  • - The blooming of the beauty industry.
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Hi

Both are possible but they have different meanings:

- The booming of the beauty industry.

This means that there has been a great increase in the industry. It has gone off 'boom', like a cannon. Business has been increasing at a very high rate.


- The blooming of the beauty industry.

This suggests that, up until now, it has been a new industry. However, r

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anonymousIn the sentence, which is correct, booming or blooming?

Booming. If you wanted speak of an unfolding of the industry, the word is "blossoming".

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