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IS occur and happen the same?
What is the difference between Happen and Occur? The word happen is used to convey the sense of ‘take place. The word occur is used in the sense of ‘come into being as an event or a process’.
What is the difference between happened and happen?
what happen or what happened? Explanation: The past tense, ‘happened’ is correct. In the context offered, you are asking what (events) happened that changed or effected Jen.
Whats another word for took place?
What is another word for took place?
| happened | occurred |
|---|---|
| ensued | eventuated |
| resulted | appeared |
| emerged | followed |
| turned up | happed |
Did not take place meaning?
(USA) This idiom is used to advise people not to be cheated or ripped off. exact (8) Coolidge was no baseball fan, and the meeting did not take place. 1.
What did happen VS What happened?
This means that we are asking a question about the subject of the sentence, so to make the correct question, we use the verb in the correct tense without an auxiliary: What happened? The second example you give – What did happen? – is grammatically incorrect.
What is the difference between end and finish?
Key difference: The words finish and end means the same, but differs slightly in their main contexts. The word ‘finish’ refers to extend where it limits and get completed, while the word ‘end’ refers to termination or stop of something. The word ‘finish’ refers to bring any task or work into its completion state.
What is the difference between occur and occur?
Occur can be used also as “take place” BUT, occur could be used too for not actual events but things that just happen. For example “It occurred to me that I needed a new job” (here occur works as something that just happened in your mind, you could not use “take place” at this kind of sentences, it wouldn’t make sense.
What is the difference between ‘happen’ and ‘take place’?
Happen = to take place (usually without being planned) The accident happened at 3 pm. (there’s nothing wrong with this construction) With “fire” we usually say “a/the fire broke out or took place” but “happened” is certainly not impossible. However, when connecting an event to a particular location “take place” seems much more likely.
How do you use happen in a sentence?
Happen, Occur, Take Place. It seems that the subject of happen is almost always indefinite: But as soon as the subject has the slightest semblance of definition, happen is changed to occur or take place: You would not usually say an accident/fire/storm/etc. happened. You would say they occurred, took place, etc.
What is the meaning of the word ‘happen’?
In both the sentences given above, the word happen conveys the sense of ‘take place’ and hence the meanings of the sentences would be ‘it took place yesterday’ and ‘what is taking place there?’. On the other hand, the word happen is often followed by the preposition ‘in’ and also ‘at’ as in the sentences given below.