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- Can someone explain when to use relevance and when relevancy?
Relevance is the more common form, according to grammarist com: Relevance vs relevancy: There is no difference between relevance and relevancy
- Pertinent versus relevant- whats the usage difference
The words relevant and pertinent are members of a group of words that—according to Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms (1942)—also includes germane, material, apposite, applicable, and apropos of That dictionary distinguishes between the two words you're interested in as follows:
- It is relating to or related to? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
In some cases there may be a slight difference between them Relating to:"about or concerning " The less tangible effects of the Senate bill will come from the provisions relating to jobs and social services for immigrants
- word choice - Relevant to vs. relevant for - English Language . . .
Here the object of relevant is not stated; it is merely implied, and so the preposition for now links the adjective to a group of people who would find the article relevant Had the object of relevance been explicitly stated, the preposition used to link it would have been to
- A word to convey to make something relevant
Is there a word that could convey the meaning of 'to make something relevant'? I am talking in the context of adapting and utilising certain art theories (contemporary art and postmodernism, mainly) which originated in Western sphere and were gradually adapted and utilisied here in Indonesia
- Is there a semantic difference between relevance and pertinence?
So, if you have relevant facts to discuss, they may or not be important, but they are related to the matter at hand But if you have pertinent facts to discuss, they have precise or logical relevance to the discussion They absolutely should not be overlooked Pertinent facts are always relevant, but relevant facts are not necessarily pertinent
- A word for something that is currently relevant
English borrows words and phrases from other languages quite extensively, and so as well as the existing excellent suggestions of "topical" and "germane", I would add the borrowed French phrase "au courant" which is accepted in English useage in all relevant dictionaries, and adds an implication of literal currency in cultural context
- grammaticality - Which is correct: the below information or the . . .
As a preposition, "below" would be written after "information" as a stranded preposition While typically prepositions would precede the noun, stranded prepositions can occur "in interrogative or relative clauses, where the interrogative or relative pronoun that is the preposition's complement is moved to the start"
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