Allude versus Elude
Sometimes it is not only the homophones but also the normal English words that creates a lot of confusion in the mind of readers as the term looks similar to each other and not use very often. In this article we are going to talk about such two terms only namely allude and elude. As we can observe both terms are not used very often in our day to day life and hence making it difficult to know and remember the difference between the two.
In this article we are going to see meaning of both these two terms and also we are going to use them in sentences framing
Use of the term allude and Elude in sentence framing
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Important note
As in the above segment we leant about meaning of both the terms and also used these terms in sentences one thing is very clear in front of us that both the term allude and elude cannot be used interchangeably to each other. Thus is it very important for us to remember the difference between the two terms and which can be done my remembering a very simple trick that is
Term elude have “e” in it and term escape have “e” in it so in this way we can say “e” for elude, “e” for escape allude is used for indirect referencing.
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After learning the way to remember the difference lets now proceed to learning the correct pronunciation of these two terms.
Allude is pronounced as uh lood
Elude is pronounced as uh lood
Summary
To quickly summarize our learning of this article first we learnt about meaning of the term allude which refers to referring someone indirectly and elude means something that is hard to capture. Then we also used these terms in sentences framing also we learnt a small trick in the important note section to remember this difference which was lastly followed by knowing how to pronounce both these terms accurately.
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