Childish is used negatively to criticize behavior that one does not want to see in adults. Childlike, on the other hand, is used either as a positive or neutral evaluation. Here’s a quote from somewhere that may help to explain:
“To advertising writers, connotation is a matter of life or death. There isn’t an ad agency [...]
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Many a times we get confused with how to use a particular word in a sentence. So today I have find one online tool in which you enter a word (only English language) and it seeks in some random books for the example sentences which do contain that word. Since [...]
Got one more interested couple. They look so similar that you need to concentrate on them for atleast 2 seconds to know where they differ. Yes, they differ at ‘a’ and ‘e’.
BTW,
DUAL: connotated two, twice etc.
whereas
DUEL: is a formal battle intended to settle a dispute.
Click them to see the dictionary meaning.
“The traditional distinction between enquire and inquire is that enquire is to be used for general senses of ‘ask’, while inquire is reserved for uses meaning ‘make a formal investigation’. In practice, however, enquire (and enquiry) is more common in British English while inquire (and inquiry) is more common in US English, but otherwise there [...]
Sometime means “at an indefinite or unstated time in the future.”
Some time means “a period of time.”
Sometimes means “occasionally, now and then.”
Examples:
“Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?”
(Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, 1933)
“You must give some time to your [...]
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