Hi,
Can you help me to better use or correctly use the words 'various' and 'different'. It gets to be confusing when they both seem to be good in certain sentential contexts.
need advice from various groups/different groups of people
from various levels/different levels of academic backgrounds
have choices to make from various fresh/different fresh fruit products
Do you have some tips?
Can you help me to better use or correctly use the words 'various' and 'different'. It gets to be confusing when they both seem to be good in certain sentential contexts.
need advice from various groups/different groups of people
from various levels/different levels of academic backgrounds
have choices to make from various fresh/different fresh fruit products
Do you have some tips?
Comments
a different way of doing this
but not
a various way of doing it
to make it short: "varius" means "many different".
Can I apply Philip's suggestion that said that 'Different' would mean 'something other than what we now have' to these as well?
We need to get good advice from people of various levels of expertise.
Many people from different schools/companies came to our opening ceremony.
In those two cases, I think you would normally see the sentences with the words as underlined and the option to substitute with the other word do not seem to exist.
I was also unsure about the usage of these two words. However,
For your examples, I would suggest:
Uttam Shukla
India
Please read the example 3 as follows:
different: used when showing that the choices are not the same as something else
Lorenz argued first that aggression is widespread in many animal species and in various human societies.
What's meant by "various human societies"?
various usually indicates many or it refers to many while different is used while comparing two things.