The two words, big and large is similar in which both of them can be used in describe the size. The main difference is that large is particularly used in describing the amount. Such assertion can be made as we find phrases "a large amount of something," "a large number of something," and "a large quantity of something” appear a lot when we search "large" in corpus.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Big vs. Large
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Good try! However, are there any other rules?
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to find out people start saying "a big amount of something" when you goggle the phrase.
ReplyDeleteTo Sally:
ReplyDeleteI'll try to figure them out.
To Bava:
Perhaps both big and large are OK...perhaps...
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ReplyDeleteAgree. I think either big or large is o.k. However, a big amount of somthing is used only in informal situation and will not be accepted in formal writing.
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