Among versus amongst
Sometimes not the different words but the different version of same words can create a havoc in the minds of English learning regarding their meaning and differences and how to use them in sentences.
This ultimately led to using wrong words and end creating a grammatical mistake. In this article we are going to learn about such two terms only namely among and amongst. 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 terms among and amongst in sentence framing
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Important note
As we have seen the meaning of both the terms and also framed sentences using the both terms one thing is very clear that the terms convey the same meaning they can be used interchangeably. Still one thing should be kept in mind that the term amongst is less popular and used less with respect to the term among.
The only difference is in the style of writing by the writers as some use the term among more and use the term amongst more.
After learning the meaning of the two terms let’s now proceed to learning the correct pronunciation of these two terms.
Among is pronounced as uh-MUHNG
Amongst is pronounced as uh-MUHNGST
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Summary
To quickly summarize our learning from this article firstly we have learnt meaning of both the term that is term used to denote feeling of inclusiveness and we also seen that both the terms have same meaning and can be used interchangeably without any error. We also framed different sentences using both the terms and at last ended the article by knowing the correct pronunciation of both the terms.
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