Sunday, 23 June 2013

Compare to / Compare with

Compare to
     To talk about the similarities or the differences between two things
     Example: China has a huge population compared to Australia.

Compare with
     To talk about both the similarities and the differences between two things
     Example: She compared the various hotels in the brochure with each other before making her choice

From http://www.edufind.com/english/writing/easily_confused_words2.cfm?confusedid=13

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