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What is the difference between give and contribute ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between give and contribute ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Example:
I would like you to GIVE me your pen.
It would be really nice if you could CONTRIBUTE to the group work.
- English (US)
To give someone something means that one person hands an object to another person or transfers or transports an object to another person.
She gave me $10.00.
She handed me $10.00.
To contribute means to work in tandem with others to accomplish as goal.
He contributed a lot of his time to our team, while we transcribed those old documents.
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Give is more informal, contribute is higher vocabulary and more formal and hence used for more serious contributions (gifts of service or cooperation)
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