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educative and educational
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Pedro14
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educative and educational
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Are these thwo words synonyms? I always use the latter but one student has use the first one: computer games are educative.
Thanks in advance. |
11 Jun 2015
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cunliffe
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Looks like it is a synonym, although I �ve never heard it. |
11 Jun 2015
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almaz
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I find that dictionaries tend to help in situations where you �re not sure of the meaning of a word. My SOED glosses it as "of or pertaining to education; conducive to education; having the power to educate" (and the OED gives its earliest citation as 1725). So, Pedro, do you think it �s a synonym? |
12 Jun 2015
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Pedro14
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Got it. Thanks for your time and valuable advice. Since I have always been taught that in English real synonyms hardly exist, after looking up in a dictionary its meaning ,and finding their definitions were similar I decided to ask in the forum in case I was missing any subtle difference. I will start using educative as a synonym when correcting compositions.
Thanks again for your help. |
12 Jun 2015
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