Addicting versus Addictive
The difference between some of the English words can be as equal to the difference between two hairs. It becomes nearly impossible to distinguish between two terms and people ends up using the wrong term. Generally common crowd ignores the mistake but when it comes to professional writing these kind of silly mistake are not tolerable at all and it creates a very bad impression among the reader and the seniors.
Thus in this article we are carefully going to observe the difference between two and we are also going to the frame the sentences using both terms as to have a better understanding.
Use of the term addicting and addictive in sentences
Addicting |
Addictive |
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Important note
As we have seen above the difference between the both terms however remembering the difference between the two is hard to remember. We can use some tricks to remember as like the term addictive has a “v” in it and term addicting don’t have a “v” in it. Try to remember it in a cross like term that has “v” in not a verb and term that don’t have a “v” is a verb.
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After seeing the meaning let’s try to learn the correct pronunciation of the both of the terms
Addicting is pronounced as uh dik shn
Addictive is pronounced as uh dikt uhv
Summary
To summarize of what we have learnt in this article both the term addictive and addicting is use in different dimension that is additive is used as an adjective and addicting is used as a verb meaning something that is carving for.
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