Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Assignments 3: "big" & "large"

Assignmaent3
Question: Is there any rule governing the use of "big" and "large"?
Yes, after I used concordance I discovered that “big” and “large” they are extremely different. For example,

“Big” is used to describe real things or something have a real form or size.
a Bid house
a big heart
a big man

“large” is used to describe what we measured such as quantity , number...,
a large amount of
a large sum of
a large number of
a large percentage of
a large proportion of
a large quantity of
a large volume of
a large part of

Maybe remember these example is more easy and useful to me.