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What is the difference between vary and alter and change and shift ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between vary and alter and change and shift ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- English (US)
TO VARY: to show differences
The results vary depending on the methods used. (+ The results are/can be different if different methods are used).
TO ALTER: to make a change, mo make something look different
The government altered the unemployment statistcs
I think the results have been altered.
TO CHANGE: similar to alter, but there are situations where CHANGE and ALTER are different.
I changed my clothes (I took off the clothes I was wearing and put on new ones).
I altered my clothes (I shortened my pants with a hem, for example)
I changed providers (I signed up with a new one) - here you cannot use ALTER
TO SHIFT: either to move something (maybe heavy), or a change by a (slow) process
The box was so heavy I couldn't even shift it
The concept of beauty is always shifting
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- English (US)
TO VARY: to show differences
The results vary depending on the methods used. (+ The results are/can be different if different methods are used).
TO ALTER: to make a change, mo make something look different
The government altered the unemployment statistcs
I think the results have been altered.
TO CHANGE: similar to alter, but there are situations where CHANGE and ALTER are different.
I changed my clothes (I took off the clothes I was wearing and put on new ones).
I altered my clothes (I shortened my pants with a hem, for example)
I changed providers (I signed up with a new one) - here you cannot use ALTER
TO SHIFT: either to move something (maybe heavy), or a change by a (slow) process
The box was so heavy I couldn't even shift it
The concept of beauty is always shifting
- Simplified Chinese (China)
I got it. Thank you so much for your detailed answer!
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