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3 Dec 2019
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What is the difference between over and above ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between over and above ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- English (US)
- Simplified Chinese (China) Near fluent
"Over" suggests the action of getting from one spot to another, like jumping from a side of a river *over* to the other.
"Above" suggests the act of staying at a position on top of something. For example, hanging myself *above* a chair.
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@CPQ0916 I will try to say in Korean~ so many meaning so other people please can add more
๋ ๋ค ํํ ์ฐ์ด๋ ๋จ์ด๋๊น ๋ฌธ๋งฅ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๋ค์ํ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์์ง๋ง ๋ช๋ช
over = more than (์ธ๊ธํ๋ ์ซ์๋ณด๋ค ๋๋ค๋ ๋ป) : She is over six years old. She is more than six years old. He ate over 5 packages of ๋ผ๋ฉด in one night.
(๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ above๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ง์ด ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
๋ญ๊ฐ ์์ ์ง๋๊ฐ ๋๋ง over๋ฅผ ์ ์จ์)
The ceiling is above my head.
The priest raised her hand above my head.
The ball flew over my head.
The plane flew over our house.
์ซ์๊ฐ ์๋ค๊ณ ํด๋ ์ ๋์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์ํฉ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด above๊ฐ ๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฌ์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์
The second floor is 5 feet above the first floor.
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- English (US) Near fluent
"Between" means for example you will say (The ball roll between the desk and the wall)
"Over"means for example you will say this one (The baby roll over to the stomach of her mother)
"Above"means that it is above of you or in a higher place for example:Above the sky,above the desk etc....,
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Over can be used for a lot of variable things, I.E Age, numbers. Or in a movement such as moving over something.
above does not move. I.E The window is above the counter.
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