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difference between decrease, diminish, lessen, reduce?
Id be more grateful if you could add some examples.
27 giu 2015 13:22
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28 giugno 2015
I'd or I would (not Id). You can look up these words in a dictionary and find example sentences. Try Oxford dictionary online. Some dictionaries also have Usage Notes which explain differences. Just one everyday example: A store can reduce or decrease its prices. Proper treatment of an injury can diminish or lessen the pain. You can also use 'reduce' and 'decrease' in the second sentence, but a store does not 'lessen' or 'diminish' prices, probably because 'prices' is a count noun, and pain is a mass/non-count noun.
27 giugno 2015
They are all synonymous
27 giugno 2015
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Cinese (mandarino), Inglese
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Inglese
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