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2 Jul 2018
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What is the difference between cease and stop ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between cease and stop ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- English (US)
These mean the same thing. Just different ways of saying it. "Cease", however, is more formal and very rarely used in every day conversation.
- English (US)
Both mean the same but cease is more formal.
- English (US)
They have the same definition and meaning, essentially. But cease is a word that most people do not use in day-to-day interaction
- Indonesian
I think "stop" more famous than cease but same meaning
- Simplified Chinese (China)
- Simplified Chinese (China)
like they shouted" cease fire!" in many films
- English (US)
they are very similar however grammatically they differ.
Say in a film a man shouts "cease fire!" but it would be incorrect to say "stop fire!" (correctly, this would be "stop firing!")
- English (US)
@MrPoy Technically, "cease fire" is no more grammatically correct than "stop fire". It would be "cease firing". There is a noun "cease-fire", which is the cessation of firing, possibly on both sides (a truce). When a commander yells out "cease fire!", he is actually issuing a "cease-fire" command. It's more expedient to yell out, "cease-fire!" rather than "I'm ordering a cease-fire!".
So no, they do not differ grammatically.
◯ Cease talking!
◯ Stop talking!
☓ Cease talk!
☓ Stop talk!
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