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Mfung Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Worth, worthy and worthwhile

I find it difficult to use the words worth, worthy and worthwhile correctly. They are quite confusing because they are all adjectives.Are there any differences in their usage? Are there any websites for references? Please give me some concrete examples to show me how these three words are used ? Do these three words have any meaning in common?
  

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someone in here suggested a method for finding examples of words in use,: "googling the BBC website" I do not know exactly how that is done, but it sounds like you go to the BBC stie, and use a google search to locate each of the words in turn and read them in real situation, this might help?

— Suzi

  • someone in here suggested a method for finding examples of words in use,: "googling the BBC website" I do not know exactly how that is done, but it sounds like you go to the BBC stie, and use a google search to locate each of the words in turn and read them in real situation, this might help?
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someone in here suggested a method for finding examples of words in use,:
"googling the BBC website"
I do not know exactly how that is done, but it sounds like you go to the BBC stie, and use a google search to locate each of the words in turn and read them in real situation, this might help?
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Following on from Suzi's suggestion - here's how you site search in Google..

site:www.bbc.co.uk

Example:

site:www.bbc.co.uk worthwhile

That would return all the bbc.co.uk pages containing worthwhile (click [url="
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Are there any differences in their usage? A comparison of these three words will be most helpful!
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have you read our answers?

- we are trying to teach you a method that you can use to investigate the differences yourself.
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