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What is the difference between scrape and scratch ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between scrape and scratch ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Scraping is caused by rubbing hard on a flat surface. Scratching is caused by claws, fingernails, or small pointed objects dragging across something.
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Basically the same, scrape is more like taking somthing of the top of somthing “Sam scraped the icing of the cake because it was too sweet”
Scratch is like itching “Sam scratched his head in confusion”
Scrape can also be used in pain though “Sam scraped his knee” witch is when you fall in the ground or somthing and the skin peels off
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the kid scrape his knee while runing after his sister.
A tree branch scratch jimmy arm when he was climbing the tree.
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@solidsilverangel14 there does need to be “ed” at the end though because it’s the action of scrapeing, “The kid scraped his knee while runing
it’s also jimmy’s arm so there needs to be an apostrophe s
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